Browsing by Author "Burger, Rulof"
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- ItemOpen AccessEmergent Black Affluence and Social Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa(2004-11) Burger, Rulof; Burger, Ronelle; van der Berg, ServaasFirstly, the paper at tempts to identify the features that distinguish the affluent and specifically the black affluent from the rest of the population with a descriptive analysis. The paper investigates how affluence predictors vary between different race groups. It shows a dramatic increase in black affluence.
- ItemMetadata onlyThe state of the labour market in South Africa after the first decade of democracy(CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) Woolard, Ingrid; Burger, Rulof
- ItemOpen AccessTrends in Poverty and Inequality Since the Political Transition(2006-03) van der Berg, Servaas; Burger, Ronelle; Burger, Rulof; Louw, Megan; Yu, DerekUsing a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty.
- ItemOpen AccessWage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data(2007-02) Burger, Rulof; Yu, DerekThis 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 earnings time series.