This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series data set. The changes in the gap are heterogeneous across the wage distribution. There has been a substantial narrowing of the gap at the bottom of the...

Three subsequent years of the October Household Survey data are used to construct a synthetic panel. Preparing cross sectional data that way allows to better utilise individual information and to address temporal developments also in the absence of genuine panel data. This paper focuses on...

Employers often decide job assignments or wages after observing productivity signals from workers. Discrimination can occur because employers have stereotypes (priors) against a group of workers, or because they use signals differently depending on the worker's group. This paper introduces an...