Browsing by Subject "J30"

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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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    Student Graduation, Labour Market Destinations and Employment Earnings
    (2012-11) Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha; Visser, Mariette
    This paper investigates the labour market destinations of graduates from seven higher education institutions in South Africa. A three-step estimation procedure is employed in which the relative importance of covariates such as age, race, and gender in each stage from educational attainment to pre-defined labour market outcomes, is estimated.