Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty estimates, simulating incomes in prepandemic household...

How important are firms for wage inequality in developing countries where structural unemployment is high? Research into the role of firms in labor market inequality has focused on contexts close to full employment. Using matched employer-employee data from South Africa, I find that firms...