In using survey data for money metric analysis of poverty and well-being, it is customary to adjust either the data or the poverty line for spatial prices differentials where data exist to make such adjustment. In developing countries where recorded price differentials between regions or...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the extent to which educational attainment, school quality and numericcompetency influence individuals’ employment and earnings prospects in the South African labourmarket using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). While NIDSis one...

South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 created new possibilities for economic policy. Economic liberalization brought sustained, if unspectacular, growth that reversed the long decline in per capita incomes, but left its scars in much job shedding associated with business becoming...