This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans – changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality …

quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies … several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education quality, such as the lack of investment in school infrastructure and … be further addressed by vocational education reforms and an alleviation of credit constraints at the tertiary level. …

In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national … household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … in the reward to education level are evident for Africans versus the overall population, between urban and rural areas …

In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education … proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on …

The central focus of this research project is the investigation of the role of education in promoting social mobility … framework linking dualism in the labour market to dualism in the school system, to illustrate how differences in education … South Africa's young adults are in large part attributable to an education system that still manages to produce vastly …

While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still … finds that money is clearly not the main issue since the South Africa's education budget is comparable to OECD countries as …