Author:Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, JairoDate:28 May 2015Analysts of the South African labour market have predominantly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more di fficult to explore labour demand from the firm side, as a result of limited data from relatively small ...Read more
Author:Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, JairoDate:28 May 2015Analysts of the South African labour market have mainly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more difficult to explore the labour demand of firms, as a result of limited data availability. We use the Quarterly ...Read more
Author:Archer, SeanDate:28 May 2015One of the most dangerous aspects of the global knowledge-based economy lies in the tensions created by the growing knowledge gap between the knowledge-rich countries of the North and the (generally) knowledge-poor countries of the South. ...Read more
Author:Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Hosegood, VictoriaDate:28 May 2015In many parts of the developing world, rural areas exhibit high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Understanding what prevents people living in rural areas from migrating to find better jobs is central to the development process. This ...Read more
Author:Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, VimalDate:28 May 2015This paper analyses labour market behaviour of the elderly in South Africa,
focusing on the Black/African population group. The analysis uses data from the
2001 census and 1996 census, the Labour Force Surveys for September 2000
and 2001, and ...Read more
Author:Ranchhod, Vimal; Dinkelman, TarynDate:28 May 2015We generate a longitudinal dataset using the rotating panel component of the nationally representative Labour Force Surveys from 2001 to 2003. We then estimate the transition probabilities across different labour market states over a six month ...Read more
Author:Cichello, Paul; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, IngridDate:28 May 2015This paper provides a brief summary of key labour market outcomes in Wave 2 of NIDS and also examines labour market transitions that occurred between Wave 1 and Wave 2. This corresponds approximately to changes between 2008 and 2010. The ...Read more