Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa
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2012-07
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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 12/149
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Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the introduction of a minimum wage law within the Agriculture sector in South Africa, based on 15 waves of the biannual Labour Force Survey (LFS), starting in September 2000 and ending in September 2007.
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Bhorat, H., Kanbur, R., Stanwix, B. 2012-07. Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa. Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 12/149. University of Cape Town.