This paper considers the role of language in labour earnings in South Africa over the period 1996 to 1998. Our pooled … race. After conditioning on a number of socio-economic and demographic factors, we find the English language to be one of …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before …

-urban divides, forms of migrant labour, rapid rural-urban migration, and high and rising real wages in the formal sector, the two …

A large amount of recent evidence finds a negative relationship between local unemployment and wages in OECD countries … unemployment regions have higher wages to compensate for search and other costs. This paper discovers a wage curve in South Africa … unemployment can have a large impact on wages in South Africa. However, this wage flexibility does not extend to union wages which …

This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS has impacted the labor market in South Africa, focusing on its effect on wages and … that cumulative AIDS mortality has led to reductions in wages of between 3 and 6% for the African population group (Black …

-urban divides, forms of migrant labour, rapid rural-urban migration, and high and rising real wages in the formal sector, the two …

of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … on wages. …

to provide strong evidence of decreasing wages in the informal economy. The paper also investigates the change in the …

largest in the world in South Africa, with African and white workers receiving wages that differ by a factor of five. The … workers is shown to be associated in 1993 with their receiving wages that are 145 percent higher than comparable nonunion …