Browsing by Author "Muller, Colette"

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    Measuring South Africa's Informal Sector: An Analysis of National Household Surveys
    (2003-01) Muller, Colette
    This study uses three key South African national household survey instruments – the 1993 Project Statistics for Statistics of Living Standards and Development, the 1995, 1997 and 1999 October Household Surveys, and the September 2000 Labour Force Survey – to identify the problems involved in capturing information on who works in the informal sector and the kind of work they do.
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    'Two Million Net New Jobs': A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995 - 2003
    (2005-08) Casale, Daniela; Muller, Colette; Posel, Dorrit
    In 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.