Author:Casale, Daniela; Posel, DorritDate:06 Jun 2017Migration, at the broadest level, involves the movement of individuals over space and the change of an individual's place of residence. This general definition encompasses many different kinds of migration. Migration may be involuntary, where ...Read more
Author:Posel, DorritDate:06 Jun 2017This paper investigates measures of migration captured in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), and it compares these measures, and how information is collected, with other household surveys conducted in South Africa. The paper is divided ...Read more
Author:Casale, Daniela; Muller, Colette; Posel, DorritDate:Aug 2005In 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 ...Read morecbna
Author:Dias, Rosa; Posel, DorritDate:Mar 2007This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis ...Read morecbna
Author:Posel, Dorrit; Casale, DanielaDate:Apr 2003This paper attempts to redress the lack of research into temporary labour migration at a national level in South Africa. Using the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 1995, 1997 and 1999 October Household ...Read morecbna