employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …

the evolution of the wage structure, it is not the main driver. Its effect was crowded out by employment and wage policies …In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context … characterized by a decreasing earnings inequality following the fall of education premia, and an asymmetric wage polarization led by …

distinguishes within each major area of economic activity a modern wage-employment sector and an informal self-employment one. In … contrast to agriculture - where the labour share fell due a shift of labour force towards the wage-employment sector - in other … major areas of the economy the fall in the labour share is explained by reductions within the wage-employment sector …

that load shedding is associated with significantly lower employment rates, working hours, and earnings on average …. Employment appears more sensitive relative to intensive margin outcomes, threatening job creation and preservation efforts. These …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work …

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

little is known about how successful such training may be in closing the gender wage gap. We use a matched employer …-employee panel dataset to assess why firms train and whether formal training affects wage outcomes in Vietnamese SMEs. Training is … generally found to be firm-sponsored and specific in nature. We find that training is associated with a wage increase of 7 …

high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …