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The Gender Wage Gap in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market
Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012
, the “unexplained” proportion or discrimination accounted for 71 percent of the gap in 2007 when using the uncorrected … discrimination against African women in the post-apartheid South African labour market. We note though that the assumption that the … “unexplained” component accounts for discrimination has been criticized for a number of reasons, including the fact that women may …
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...
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Poverty and well-being in post-apartheid South Africa : an overview of data, outcomes and policy
Bhorat, Haroon (contributor); Kanbur, Ravi (contributor) - 2006
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Dimensions of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa 1996 - 2001 : a poverty status report
Bhorat, Haroon; Poswell, Laura; Naidoo, Pranushka - 2004
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Poverty and policy in post-apartheid South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon (contributor); Kanbur, S. M. Ravi (contributor) - 2006
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The determinants of minimum wage violation in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - 2011
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Minimum wage violation in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - 2011
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A note on measuring the depth of minimum wage violation
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - 2011
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Economic policy in South Africa : past, present, and future
Bhorat, Haroon; Hirsch, Alan; Kanbur, Ravi; Ncube, Mthuli - 2014
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Partial minimum wage compliance
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 18, pp. 1-20
In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare the counterfactual wage distribution without the minimum wage law to the current wage...
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