the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased returns to experience and an increased rate of return to tertiary … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased returns to experience and an increased rate of return to tertiary … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …

Africa, levels of inequality remain stubbornly high. The focused contribution of this paper is to examine the role of income … from different sources driving these high levels of inequality, and which ones cause changes over time. We use data from … from 2008 and 2014 to assess the role of different income sources in overall inequality and compare snapshots of the level …

In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the … South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 … was high and relatively stable, there were nonetheless some interesting shifts in the factors generating inequality. The …

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the … high inequality context and, with the changing global inequality situation as context, country chapters investigate the …