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Higher residual wage dispersion for white workers in post apartheid South Africa, 1995-2006: composition effects or higher skill prices?
Agesa, Richard U.; Agesa, Jacqueline; Bongani, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 71-100
Apartheid in South Africa ensured whites received more and better-quality schooling relative to Africans, coloreds, and Asians. It is hence conceivable, consistent with human-capital theory whites would receive relatively higher prices to their measured human-capital skills and would have higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213077
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Race, Poverty, and Deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274417
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Language and Labour in South Africa: A new approach for a new South Africa
Cornwell, Katy - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2006
This paper considers the role of language in labour earnings in South Africa over the period 1996 to 1998. Our pooled cross-section comprises of over 160,000 working age adults, and the analysis considers the decision to participate in the labour force, employment prospects and labour earnings....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087573
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A Multilateral Decomposition of Racial Wage Differentials in the 1994 South African Labour Market
Allanson, P.; Atkins, J.; Hinks, T. - In: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2000) 1, pp. 93-120
This article develops a new multilateral decomposition procedure for the analysis of wage differentials and applies this to the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market. Using micro-data on male workers from the 1994 October Household survey, it is found that whites received the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224534
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282
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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
comparator groups based on spatial proximity, race-based comparator groups are important in the racially divided South African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605202
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THE DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS AMONG RACE GROUPS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Ebrahim, Amina - Department of Economics, Rhodes University - 2010
This paper tests for happiness differences among race groups in South Africa and also investigates the determinants of … happiness for each race group. Using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Survey, the results indicate that reported … happiness differs substantially among race groups, with Blacks being the least happy. The determinants of happiness also differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201360
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Legacies, Change and Transformation in the Post‐Apartheid City: Towards an Urban Sociological Cartography
SCHENSUL, DANIEL; HELLER, PATRICK - In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35 (2011) 1, pp. 78-109
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773907
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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
comparator groups based on spatial proximity, race-based comparator groups are important in the racially divided South African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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Contribution of human capital to economic development: some selected issues.
JR, Behrman - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966430