Browsing by Author "Yu, Derek"

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    An Overview of Strike Activities in South Africa, 1999-2011
    (2013-07) Jacobs, Toughedah; Yu, Derek
    This factsheet presents longer-term trends on strike activities covering the period from 1999 to 2011. It begins by looking at the overall extent of industrial action, before examining what has been happening across industries, provinces and trade unions, as well as the principle cause of disputes.
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    Trends in Poverty and Inequality Since the Political Transition
    (2006-03) van der Berg, Servaas; Burger, Ronelle; Burger, Rulof; Louw, Megan; Yu, Derek
    Using 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.
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    Wage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data
    (2007-02) Burger, Rulof; Yu, Derek
    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 earnings time series.