Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda

Simple item page
dc.creatorPellicer, Miquel
dc.creatorRanchhod, Vimal
dc.creatorSarr, Mare
dc.creatorWegner, Eva
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:12Z
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:12Z
dc.date2011-03
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:07Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:07Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionThere 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 of inequality have not decreased despite the transition to democratic rule in the 1990s; if any, they seem to have increased. There has also been considerable work on the proximate causes of these highlevels of inequality on the basis of inequality decompositions (See Leibbrandt, Levinsohn and McCrary 2010, Leibbrandt. Woolard, Finn and Argent 2010, and Bhorat et al. 2009 for recent analyses). However, much less is known about the underlying causes of this high level of inequality and of its persistence.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/60
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Income inequality KW - Inequality trip LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda TI - Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/60 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/60
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectIncome inequality
dc.subjectInequality trip
dc.titleInequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
Files
Collections
Reports