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Wage premia and wage differentials in the South African Labour Market

Author: Bhorat, Haroon Date: Oct 2000 The aim of this paper is to highlight wage trends and patterns in the South African labour market through examining wage premia and wage differentials. The analysis utilises data from the October Household Survey of 1995. Findings show that ... Read more c b n a
Wage Subsidies to Combat Unemployment and Poverty: Assessing South Africa's Options

Author: Burns, Justine; Edwards, Lawrence; Pauw, Kalie Date: 28 May 2015 Wage or employment subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment levels. Various advisers to the South African government have endorsed wage subsidies as a policy measure to deal with this countrys ... Read more
Wage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data

Author: Burger, Rulof ; Yu, Derek Date: Feb 2007 This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to construct a more comparable ... Read more c b n a
Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 28 May 2015 A survey of 190 wine and table grape farmers in the Western Cape puts the average wage for farm labour at R928 per month in 2003 and R1123 per month in 2004. Output per worker has doubled since 1983. On farms with grape harvesters, labour is ... Read more
Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data

Author: Wittenberg, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 We analyse the long‐term trends in wages in South Africa, using the data from the October Household Surveys, Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Labour Force Surveys. We show that outliers and missing data need to be taken into consideration ... Read more
War and Regime in Africa: A southern pattern?

Author: Seegers, Annette Date: 16 May 2001 Nearly 100 years ago the good men and women of the town of Murraysburg met, early in the morning, to discuss the previous day’s events: a Free State commando had raided them again. Murraysburg should have been out of harm’s way – in today’s ... Read more
Water and development in rural Transkei: Some present needs; current and future strategies

Author: Krone, A.G. Date: 28 May 2015 Water supply, sanitation, Transkei Read more
The Way Forward for the City of Cape Town and what it means to be 'Smart' in Africa

Author: Boyle, Luke Date: Mar 2020 In today’s urban environment, local governments have to deal with increasingly complex mandates, social inequalities and economic growth in a context of increasing environmental and economic uncertainty (Baud et al., 2014). In Africa, these ... Read more
WCRL area-disaggregated OMP output: task group results

Author: Johnston, Susan J ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2007 These results are for the “OMP2” presented in WG/04/07/WCRL1. Results have been updated using the “observed” 2005 somatic growth data provided by James Gaylard. (Note: 2005 refers to the 2005/06 season.) The previous program also had an “error” ... Read more
“We are not fresh”: HIV-positive women talk of their experience of living with their spoiled identity

Author: Rohleder, Poul ; Gibson, Kerry Date: 2005 Women have been identified as being at greater risk in South Africa's growing HIV epidemic. Stigma contributes to the epidemic, as it makes HIV positive individuals reluctant to become identified and seek appropriate care. The purpose of this ... Read more c b n d
'We can help!' - A literature review of current practice involving traditional African healers in biomedical HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Jo Date: 2005 This review describes the available research literature involved with efforts at collaboration between Traditional African Healers (TAHs) and biomedical practitioners in HIV/AIDS interventions in Southern Africa. The paper draws on academic ... Read more c b n d
“We want another doctor!” Citizen agency and contested notions of disability in social assistance applications in South Africa

Author: Kelly, Gabrielle Date: Jul 2016 Problems in fairly allocating welfare and health resources or targeting social programmes are very often located in the spaces where citizens interact directly with state workers. This study draws on observations of doctor-patient encounters ... Read more c b n d
Wealth data quality in the National Income Dynamics Study wave 2

Author: Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the quality of data on household assets, liabilities and net worth in the South African National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2. The NIDS is the first nationally representative survey on household wealth in South ... Read more
Wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2

Author: Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile Date: 28 May 2015 This document investigates the composition and distribution of individual and household wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2 dataset (SALDRU, 2010-2011). The NIDS Wave 2 instrument marks the first time in South Africa ... Read more
Weapons, violence and the perpetrator-victim nexus in South Africa

Author: Thaler, Kai Date: 2011 Given the high levels of crime and violence in South Africa, there may be a temptation for citizens to arm themselves for protection. Using quantitative survey data from the Cape Area Panel Study and qualitative interviews with residents of ... Read more
Weighing the value of asset proxies: The case of the body mass index in South Africa

Author: Wittenberg, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 There are many household surveys, e.g. the Demographic and Health Surveys, that carry a wealth of useful information but in which information of interest to economists, chiefly or missing altogether. In many of these surveys, however, there ... Read more
Welfare Shifts in the Post-apartheid South Africa: A Comprehensive Measurement of Changes

Author: Bhorat, Haroon ; van der Westhuizen, Carlene ; Goga, Sumayya Date: Feb 2008 This policy document was compiled based on the DPRU Working Paper 07/128, Welfare Shifts in the Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Comprehensive Measurement of Changes by Haroon Bhorat, Carlene van der Westhuizen & Sumaya Goga. The paper was ... Read more c b n a
Welfare Shifts in the Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Comprehensive Measurement of Changes

Author: Bhorat, Haroon ; van der Westhuizen, Carlene ; Goga, Sumayya Date: Oct 2007 The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive measure of shifts in welfare in post-apartheid South Africa by examining changes in both income and non-income welfare between 1993 and 2005. Research considering the changes in ... Read more c b n a
Were the survey observations of anchovy during 2011 outside the range simulated during OMP-08 development

Author: De Moor, Carryn L Date: 2012 At the Small Pelagic Scientific Working Group Meeting on 29th February 2012, some queried whether the below average survey observations of anchovy during 2011 warranted a change to the TAC constraints used in OMP-08. This was considered under ... Read more
West coast rock lobster 2010 updated assessments

Author: Johnston, Susan J ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2010 The 2010 updated assessment involved included new (2009) data in the likelihood, as well as using updated FIMS data (a recent review of the methodology had produced new FIMS CPUE, catch-at-length and F% (percentage of the catch by number which ... Read more