This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human … discrimination. …

economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality. We look at an often …-overlooked driver of gender inequality: international trade. Trading firms constitute 70 per cent of employment in South African … universe of formal South African manufacturing firms, we show that these firms exhibit greater gender wage gaps than non …

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the … the monopsony model in explaining these results. Differences in labour supply elasticities across gender and income groups …

administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log … earnings, and various percentile ratios to document changes in earnings inequality. I show that earnings inequality estimates … from the Quarterly Labour Force Surveys are unreliable, most likely as a result of the earnings imputations in the publicly …

We study an often-overlooked factor behind gender inequality: globalization, in particular, foreign direct investment … (FDI). Building on a growing literature that studies the impact of trade and FDI on gender inequality, we test whether … foreign-owned firms exhibit a different gender wage gap (GWG) than firms with domestic ownership, using unique South African …

a growing pay gap and that women are underrepresented in leadership positions. The evaluation of the gender pay gap in … 71 registered medical schemes. In addition to taking demographic information like gender and race into account, financial … data such as CEO fees (earnings or pay) and government structure indicators like board size were also considered. Other …

of genuine panel data. This paper focuses on gender and race specific cohort wages. Average earnings of birth cohorts of …

financial decisions. Understanding the influence gender and personality traits have on an investor's financial risk tolerance …