Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages
| dc.contributor.author | Conradie, Beatrice | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-19T13:25:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-19T13:25:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-19T13:24:05Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In August 2003, six months after statutory minimum wages came into effect in South African agriculture, wine farmers in two Western Cape districts were surveyed to establish the initial employment impacts of the sectoral determination. The data suggest universal compliance with legal requirements for most labour classes. Specified wage rates required almost no wage increase in one district, and wage increases of between 16% and 25% in the other district, especially for workers at the bottom end of the wage scale. Price elasticity of demand for farm labour is estimated to be between –0.28 and –0.30. No evidence was found that tractors and labourers are substitutes in the production of wine grapes, but the data support a substitution hypothesis for labour and grape harvesting machines, although the relationship was not statistically significant. Job losses during the past year were limited to about 1% of permanent staff, and were in line with the estimated labour elasticity. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Conradie, B. (2003). <i>Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19725 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Conradie, Beatrice <i>Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19725 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Conradie, B. (2003). Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0 7992 2220-8 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Conradie, Beatrice AB - In August 2003, six months after statutory minimum wages came into effect in South African agriculture, wine farmers in two Western Cape districts were surveyed to establish the initial employment impacts of the sectoral determination. The data suggest universal compliance with legal requirements for most labour classes. Specified wage rates required almost no wage increase in one district, and wage increases of between 16% and 25% in the other district, especially for workers at the bottom end of the wage scale. Price elasticity of demand for farm labour is estimated to be between –0.28 and –0.30. No evidence was found that tractors and labourers are substitutes in the production of wine grapes, but the data support a substitution hypothesis for labour and grape harvesting machines, although the relationship was not statistically significant. Job losses during the past year were limited to about 1% of permanent staff, and were in line with the estimated labour elasticity. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 SM - 0 7992 2220-8 T1 - Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages TI - Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19725 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19725 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Conradie B. Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages. 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19725 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Labour | |
| dc.subject.other | Wages | |
| dc.subject.other | Wage Compliance | |
| dc.title | Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |