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Ingrid Woolard
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 90
Citations - 4405
Ingrid Woolard is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 90 publications receiving 4183 citations. Previous affiliations of Ingrid Woolard include University of Port Elizabeth & Institute for the Study of Labor.
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Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the Fall of Apartheid
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed analysis of changes in both poverty and inequality since the fall of Apartheid, and the potential drivers of such developments is presented, using national survey data from 1993, 2000 and 2008.
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Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994 and describe how changes in labour supply interacted with stagnant labour demand to produce unemployment rates that peaked between 2001 and 2003.
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The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant
TL;DR: This article used the continuous treatment method of Hirano and Imbens (2004) to estimate the impact of these transfers on child nutrition as measured by child height-for-age.
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Measuring Poverty in South Africa
Ingrid Woolard,Murray Leibbrandt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a poverty profile of South Africa, which is based on the 2001 Census and the September 2002 Labour Force Survey (LFS), and they find that significant levels of in-migration are likely to continue for at least the medium-term, with inmigrants posing important challenges specifically in the areas of health, housing and infrastructure provision.
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Surviving Unemployment Without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Stephan Klasen,Ingrid Woolard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the unemployed are able to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation and find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to the resources.