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All jobs are equal, but some jobs are more equal than others: what a clustering algorithm reveals about the labour market segmentation in South Africa

Author: Kensett, Jonathan Matthew Date: 2021 The theory of labour market segmentation is often used to explain wage inequality in South Africa. It posits that labour markets consist of different segments that are differentiated from other segments based on some observable characteristics. ... Read more
Earnings volatility in South Africa

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 How much volatility is there in earnings in South Africa? The South African labour market has been shown to be a key determinant of welfare, both in terms of poverty and inequality. These are a function of both the high levels of unemployment ... Read more
Economic mobility in South Africa: evidence from household survey data

Author: Finn, Arden Date: 2017 High levels of inequality, poverty and unemployment are some of the most substantial challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa. Most of the research addressing these questions has used micro datasets to compare snapshots of welfare over ... Read more
The effect of selected academic development programmes on the academic performance of academic development students at a South African university : an empirical study.

Author: Smith, Leonard Cowper Date: 2012 The case studies that make up this thesis cover the three largest academic development programmes at the University of Cape Town. A variety of statistical methods are used to estimate the effect of educational interventions in selected first- ... Read more
Enforcement and compliance: The case of minimum wages and mandatory contracts for domestic workers in South Africa

Author: Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal; Hofmeyr, Clare Date: What happens when a previously unregulated labour market is regulated? After the introduction of minimum wages and mandatory employment contracts for domestic workers, wages increased markedly while neither employment nor hours worked declined; ... Read more
Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Marteleto, Letitia Date: 28 May 2015 We estimate the effect of a teenage birth on the educational attainment of young mothers in Cape Town, South Africa. Longitudinal and retrospective data on youth from the CAPS dataset are used. We control for a number of early life and ... Read more
Estimating the Effects of South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive – An Update

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden Date: 06 Jun 2017 Our previous study of the effects of South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) (Ranchhod and Finn, 2014) found that the ETI did not have a statistically significant impact on youth employment probabilities in the first six months of 2014. ... Read more
Estimating the responsiveness of college applications to the likelihood of acceptance and financial assistance: Evidence from Texas.

Author: Andrews, Rodney; Ranchhod, Vimal; Sathy, Viji Date: 28 May 2015 This paper investigates the impact of Texas's Top Ten Percent Rule - which grants automatic entry to any public college in Texas for Texas high school graduates who graduate in the top decile - and subsequent targeted recruitment programs ... Read more
Estimating the short run effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden Date: 28 May 2015 What effect did the introduction of the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) have on youth employment probabilities in South Africa in the short run? The ETI came into effect on the 1st of January 2014. Its purpose is to stimulate youth employment ... Read more
Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Author: Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 What happens when a previously uncovered labor market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages and formal contract coverage, and no ... Read more
Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Author: Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 What happens when a previously uncovered labor market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and no statistically ... Read more
Genuine Fakes: The prevalence and implications of fieldworker fraud in a large South African survey

Author: Finn, Arden; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 We document how we diagnosed data fabrication in the National Income Dynamics Study. Since the fabrication was detected while fieldwork was still on-going, the relevant interviews were re-conducted and the fabricated data were replaced with ... Read more
Household responses to adverse income shocks: Pensioner out-migration and mortality in South Africa

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 How do poor households respond to the cessation of cash transfers in developing countries? South Africa"s generous social pension system results in most of the poor elderly being the primary "breadwinner" in the household. I estimate the ... Read more
Inequality traps and human capital accumulation in South Africa

Author: Pellicer, Miquel; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 We consider the interaction between human capital accumulation and inequality in South Africa. We start by discussing three alternative theoretical frameworks that relate inequality and investment decisions in post-secondary education; namely ... Read more
Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda

Author: Pellicer, Miquel; Ranchhod, Vimal; Sarr, Mare; Wegner, Eva Date: 28 May 2015 There has been considerable effort in ascertaining with confidence the trends in income inequality in South Africa. South Africa has traditionally been among the most unequal countries in the world and continues to be so. Surprisingly, levels ... Read more
Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyses labour market behaviour of the elderly in South Africa, focusing on the Black/African population group. The analysis uses data from the 2001 census and 1996 census, the Labour Force Surveys for September 2000 and 2001, and ... Read more
Labour market transitions in South Africa: What can we learn from matched Labour Force Survey data?

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal; Dinkelman, Taryn Date: 28 May 2015 We generate a longitudinal dataset using the rotating panel component of the nationally representative Labour Force Surveys from 2001 to 2003. We then estimate the transition probabilities across different labour market states over a six month ... Read more
Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of Academic Development Students in second-year microeconomics

Author: Smith, Leonard; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyses the impact of educational interventions made in the first- and second-year microeconomics courses on academic development students final mark in the second-year course. It also addresses issues of methodology, specification, ... Read more
Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of academic development students in second-year microeconomics

Author: Smith, Leonard C ; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 2012 This paper analyses the impact of educational interventions made in the first- and second-year microeconomics courses on academic development students' final mark in the second-year course. It also addresses issues of methodology, specification, ... Read more
The added worker effect in South Africa

Author: Hoffman, Morne Date: 2019 The theory that married women’s labour supply increases in response to their partners job loss is known as the added worker effect (addWE). This paper investigates how married women’s labour force participation, probability of employment and ... Read more

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