Browsing by Subject "J23"

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    Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa
    (2012-07) Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin
    Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the introduction of a minimum wage law within the Agriculture sector in South Africa, based on 15 waves of the biannual Labour Force Survey (LFS), starting in September 2000 and ending in September 2007.
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    The Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages and Hours of Work in South Africa
    (2012-11) Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha
    This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007 period.
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    Why is Youth Unemployment so High and Unequally spread in South Africa?
    (2002-05) Mlatsheni, Cecil; Rospabe, Sandrine
    Not only does the South African labour market exhibit a high unemployment rate for the young, according to international standards, but it also shows evidence of large inequalities between age groups, races and genders. Thus, this paper first seeks to explain these stylised factsinvestigating the microeconomic determinants of employment for different groups of the population.