This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets … choosing datasets on either side of Statistics South Africa's changeover from October Household Surveys (OHS) to the more … strong evidence of decreasing wages in the informal economy. The paper also investigates changes in the distribution of …

Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on … household incomes, and relatively simple decomposition methods, we document the contribution to this growth in the mean net … household income of working-age households from different income sources, and break down further changes in employment income by …

In this article, we analyse the dynamics of household per capita incomes using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South … that changes in income are more important than changes in household size and that changes in labour earnings are more … important than changes in other sources of household income …

South Africa faces a triple challenge of inequality, unemployment and poverty. Added to these three is a plethora of …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …

This paper uses various decomposition techniques to understand the nature of household inequality in contemporary South … to wage income in driving household income inequality in South Africa. Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has …