Wage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data
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2007-02
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University of Cape Town
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Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 07/117
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This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to construct a more comparable earnings time series.
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Burger, R., Yu, D. 2007-02. Wage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data. Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 07/117. University of Cape Town.