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Achieving Employment Equity in the Public Service: A study of changes between 1995 and 2001

Author: Thompson, Keith ; Woolard, Ingrid Date: Jan 2002 This paper will seek to analyse the performance of the public sector in implementing affirmative action policies intended to promote employment equity. This will be done primarily by examining the pattern of changes in public sector employment ... Read more c b n a
An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa

Author: Nwosu, Chijioke Osinachi Date: 2015 The relationship between health and labour market outcomes is of academic and policy interest due to the essential role the labour market plays in engendering economic growth. It is in this regard that this thesis is both timely and essential ... Read more
Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey

Author: Crosoer, David ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 2005 Using data from a detailed chronic poverty survey of three South African communities, this paper compares the correlations between traditional (i.e. income and expenditure) and wealth-based measures of poverty in ranking households as poor ... Read more c b n d
Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: An assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey

Author: Crosoer, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 Using data from a detailed chronic poverty survey of three South African communities, this paper compares the correlations between traditional (i.e. income and expenditure) and wealth-based measures of poverty in ranking households as poor ... Read more
Child Grants: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets

Author: Woolard, Ingrid; Buthelezi, Thabani; Bertsher, Jonathan Date: 28 May 2015 This paper provides a brief summary of some key descriptive findings about child grants from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Wave 1 was conducted in 2008 and Wave 2 in 2010/11. The paper has two main purposes ... Read more
Children and inequality: an introduction and overview

Author: Hall, Katharine ; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 2012 Read more c b n d
Children and inequality: closing the gap

Author: Hall, Katharine ; Woolard, Ingrid ; Lake, Lori ; Smith, Charmaine Date: 2012 Policy brief accompanying the South African Child Gauge 2012, published by the Children's Institute, UCT. Read more c b n d
A Comparison of Wage Levels and Wage Inequality in the Public and Private Sectors, 1995 - 2000

Author: Woolard, Ingrid Date: Mar 2002 This paper sets out to investigate relative wages and wage dispersion for formal sector workers in the private and public sectors. The paper explicitly measures the size of the public sector wage premium and offers some reasons for its ... Read more c b n a
Corporate taxation and investment in South Africa

Author: Maboshe, Mashekwa Date: 2021 This thesis investigates some aspects of corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa. The thesis uses specially constructed and unique datasets to draw insights on the link between corporate tax changes and firm-level investment ... Read more
Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa

Author: Leibbrandt, Murray; Finn, Arden; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 This paper describes the changes in inequality in South Africa over the post-apartheid period, using income data from 1993 and 2008. Having shown that the data are comparable over time, it then profiles aggregate changes in income inequality, ... Read more
Distributional impact of health care finance in South Africa

Author: Ataguba, John E Date: 2012 In South Africa, health care is financed through different mechanisms - allocations from general taxes, private health insurance contributions and direct out-of-pocket payments. These mechanisms impact differently on different households. ... Read more
An examination of labour discrimination in South Africa 2005-2008 : discussion and sensitivity analysis

Author: Barnett, Luke Date: 2011 Unemployment levels in South Africa are some of the highest in the world. Since the birth of democracy in 1994, the South African government has not only made employment a major focal point, but also the reduction in unemployment inequality. ... Read more
Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality

Author: Hundenborn, Ines Janina Date: 2021 This doctoral thesis analyses the changes in income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. The thesis adds to the existing literature by explaining the underlying causes of the changes in observed income inequality. As such, this thesis ... Read more
Exploring the degree of stability in young adults' living arrangements in the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) between 2002 and 2005 and how this relates to their well-being

Author: Jooste, Meagan Date: 2009 The legacy of racial discrimination in South Africa continues in terms of differences in levels of income and poverty across races. While much work has been done on understanding these dynamics at the level of the household, little attention ... Read more
Gender and life-cycle differentials in the correlates of adult ill health in South Africa

Author: Maboshe, Mashekwa Date: 2011 This study investigates the gender and life-cycle differentials in the socio-economic co-variates of adult self-evaluated ill health in South Africa using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study wave 1 survey. Read more
Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray; Daniels, Reza Che Date: 28 May 2015 The National Income Dynamics Study is the first national panel study of South African individuals. Its objective is to track these individuals over time to study social mobility. This paper documents the survey design and a successful recontact ... Read more
Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework

Author: Leibbrandt, Murray ; Woolard, Ingrid Date: Dec 1999 The existing work on household poverty and inequality in South Africa has shown that poverty and inequality differ markedly by race, location, education, gender of the head, household demographics and household labour market participation. ... Read more c b n a
Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals

Author: Idahosa, Love Odion Date: 2014 The study evaluates the impact of the presence of an individual who is age eligible for "state older persons' grant" on the labour force participation of prime age individuals who live with these individuals. Exploiting the panel structure ... Read more
Income stratification and polarization in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Machema, Ratjomose Petrose Date: 2019 The thesis explores the patterns and evolution of income polarization, income stratification, and social polarization in post-Apartheid South Africa. It uses data from a survey conducted at the end of Apartheid, and data from two post-Apartheid ... Read more
Increasing progressivity in South Africa's personal income tax system

Author: Rasmussen, Emma Helen Date: 2017 This dissertation uses NIDS Wave 4 to simulate past, present and future personal income tax progressivity in South Africa. It is divided into two main sections. The first section investigates changes in progressivity between tax years 1996 ... Read more