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Labour market challenges in the post-apartheid South Africa
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This article is published in South African Journal of Economics.The article was published on 2005-07-06. It has received 138 citations till now.read more
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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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Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition.
TL;DR: This article explored trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS) to steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions that would tend to show the least decline in poverty.
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
Servaas van der Berg,Megan Louw +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used information from various sources of data (censuses, household surveys, marketing surveys, published wage data series, etc.) to inform estimates of interand intra-group distribution over a longer time frame, in an effort to improve analysis of income inequality and poverty trends.
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In Defence of Ubuntu
TL;DR: This paper argued that it would be ethnocentric and indeed silly to suggest that the ubuntu ethic of caring and sharing is uniquely African when some of the values which it seeks to promote can also be traced in various Eurasian philosophies.
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What has the feminisation of the labour market 'brought' women in South Africa? Trends in labour force participation, employment and earnings, 1995 - 2001
TL;DR: There has been a dramatic increase in the labour force participation of women in South Africa since the mid-1990s as discussed by the authors and male participation has also been increasing but at a substantially slower rate.
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A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures
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Statistical inference in the measurement of poverty
TL;DR: In this article, a distribution-free asymptotic confidence interval and statistical inference for additive poverty indices are provided for Cote d'Ivoire from the Living Standards Survey, 1985.
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Decomposing Shifts in Labour Demand in South Africa
Haroon Bhorat,James Hodge +1 more
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Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition.
TL;DR: This article explored trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS) to steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions that would tend to show the least decline in poverty.
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
Servaas van der Berg,Megan Louw +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used information from various sources of data (censuses, household surveys, marketing surveys, published wage data series, etc.) to inform estimates of interand intra-group distribution over a longer time frame, in an effort to improve analysis of income inequality and poverty trends.
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