Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa

 

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dc.creator Leibbrandt, Murray
dc.creator Finn, Arden
dc.creator Woolard, Ingrid
dc.date 2014-07-01T09:53:59Z
dc.date 2014-07-01T09:53:59Z
dc.date 2012
dc.date.accessioned 2015-05-28T10:06:44Z
dc.date.available 2015-05-28T10:06:44Z
dc.date.issued 2015-05-28
dc.identifier Leibbrandt, M., Finn, A. & Woolard, I. (2012). Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 29(1): 19-34 .
dc.identifier http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835X.2012.645639#.U7KE1vmSz9V
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11090/759
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/759
dc.description 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, showing that inequality has increased over the post-apartheid period because an increased share of income has gone to the top decile. Social grants have become much more important as sources of income in the lower deciles. However, income source decomposition shows that the labour market has been and remains the main driver of aggregate inequality. Inequality within each racial group has increased and both standard and new methodologies show that the contribution of between-race inequality has decreased. Both aggregate and within-group inequality are responding to rising unemployment and rising earnings inequality. Those who have neither access to social grants nor the education levels necessary to integrate successfully into a harsh labour market are especially vulnerable.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Development Southern Africa
dc.subject Post-apartheid South Africa
dc.subject Income inequality
dc.subject Racial inequality
dc.subject Labour markets
dc.subject Social grants
dc.subject Inequality drivers
dc.title Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa
dc.type Journal Article
uct.type.publication Research en_ZA
uct.type.resource Article en_ZA
dc.publisher.institution University of Cape Town
dc.publisher.faculty Faculty of Commerce en_ZA
dc.publisher.department SALDRU en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Post-apartheid South Africa KW - Income inequality KW - Racial inequality KW - Labour markets KW - Social grants KW - Inequality drivers LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa TI - Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/759 ER - en_ZA


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