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A National Minimum Wage in the Context of the South African Labour Market

Author: Finn, Arden Date: 06 Jun 2017 Understanding the composition and wage structure of the South African labour market is crucial in the progressing national minimum wage debate in the country. This study highlights the centrality of wages in household income, and in determining ... Read more
Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa

Author: Leibbrandt, Murray; Finn, Arden; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 This paper describes the changes in inequality in South Africa over the post-apartheid period, using income data from 1993 and 2008. Having shown that the data are comparable over time, it then profiles aggregate changes in income inequality, ... 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
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 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
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
Income mobility in a high-inequality society: Evidence from the first two waves of NIDS

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James Date: 28 May 2015 The study of income inequality and income mobility has been central to understanding post-apartheid South Africa's development. This paper uses the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study to analyse income mobility using ... Read more
Income mobility in South Africa: Evidence from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James Date: 28 May 2015 As is clear from the title of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), one of the major reasons for undertaking South Africa's first national panel study has been to gain an understanding of income mobility. In 2008, a nationally sampled ... Read more
Mobility and Inequality in the First Three Waves of NIDS

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 How much income mobility was there in South Africa between 2008 and 2012? Did this mobility serve to equalise or disequalise longer-term measures of income? In this paper we address the first question by assessing the extent of absolute and ... Read more
The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 We use the first three waves of data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to analyse poverty dynamics in South Africa between 2008 and 2012. Restricting ourselves to the sub-sample of balanced panel respondents, we find that poverty ... Read more
The middle class and inequality in South Africa

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 The high level of inequality in South Africa has added fuel to the debate surrounding the extent to which an African middle class has emerged in South Africa in the past 20 years. This paper analyses changes in income inequality and the ... Read more
The policies for reducing income inequality and poverty in South Africa

Author: Leibbrandt, Murray; Wegner, Eva; Finn, Arden Date: 28 May 2015 Trends in inequality, poverty, and redistribution in post-apartheid South Africa have received intense attention especially in terms of measuring inequality and poverty levels and the proximate causes of these levels. We review this literature ... Read more
The significant decline in poverty in its many dimensions since 1993

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 The measurement of poverty should include dimensions of well-being that cannot be measured in monetary terms. Data on health, education and standards of living can be used to calculate a so-called Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Results ... Read more
Unconditional cash transfers and children’s educational outcomes: Evidence from the old-age pension programme in South Africa

Author: Standish-White, Jessica; Finn, Arden Date: 06 Jun 2017 We use longitudinal data from three waves of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study to estimate the effect of pension receipt in the household on children's educational outcomes in South Africa. We find that children who co-reside with ... Read more
Wealth data quality in the National Income Dynamics Study wave 2

Author: Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the quality of data on household assets, liabilities and net worth in the South African National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2. The NIDS is the first nationally representative survey on household wealth in South ... Read more
Wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2

Author: Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile Date: 28 May 2015 This document investigates the composition and distribution of individual and household wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2 dataset (SALDRU, 2010-2011). The NIDS Wave 2 instrument marks the first time in South Africa ... Read more
What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 Gauging levels of welfare using data on income and expenditure is informative yet limited and can be enhanced by including non-money-metric measures. Nationally representative data sets from 1993 and 2010-2011 which cover a broad set of domains ... Read more
What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?

Author: Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 Gauging levels of welfare using data on income and expenditure while informative is limited, and can be enhanced by including non-money-metric measures. Using data from the detailed and nationally representative PSLSD (1993) and NIDS Wave 2 ... Read more

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