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- ItemMetadata onlyMigration and remittances in South Africa(2017-06-06) Casale, Daniela; Posel, Dorrit
- ItemOpen Access'Two Million Net New Jobs': A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995 - 2003(2005-08) Casale, Daniela; Muller, Colette; Posel, DorritIn this paper we investigate labour market trends in South Africa between October 1995 and March 2003. In particular, we evaluate the South African governments claim that over this period, the economy created two million net new jobs. Using the same household survey data as that used to generate official employment estimates, we also find an almost two million net increase in employment.
- ItemOpen AccessWhat has been happening to Internal Labour Migration in South Africa, 1993 - 1999?(2003-04) Posel, Dorrit; Casale, DanielaThis paper attempts to redress the lack of research into temporary labour migration at a national level in South Africa. Using the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 1995, 1997 and 1999 October Household Surveys, we explore three broad areas: the extent of labour migration over the period 1993 to 1999; the characteristics of migrant workers and how these have changed over time; and the economic ties that labour migrants have maintained with their households of origin.
- ItemOpen AccessWhat has the feminisation of the labour market 'brought' women in South Africa? Trends in labour force participation, employment and earnings, 1995 - 2001(2004-03) Casale, DanielaThere has been a dramatic increase in the labour force participation of women in South Africa since the mid-1990s. Male participation has also been increasing but at a substantially slower rate, such that a feminisation of the labour force has occurred, mirroring a more general global trend that has been occurring since World War Two.