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- ItemOpen AccessEstimating 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, BenjaminAssessments 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.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Gender Wage Gap in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market(2012-07) Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, SumayyaWe estimate the gender wage gap for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa over the 2001 to 2007 period. Separate male and female earnings equations yields no significant decline in the conditional wage gap, regardless of whether we correct for selection into the labour force and employment or not.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages and Hours of Work in South Africa(2012-11) Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, NatashaThis 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.
- ItemOpen AccessWage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data(2007-02) Burger, Rulof; Yu, DerekThis 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.