Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis

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dc.creatorBranson, Nicola
dc.creatorArdington, Cally
dc.creatorLam, David
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.date2013-08-22T14:45:13Z
dc.date2013-08-22T14:45:13Z
dc.date2013-08
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:06:22Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:06:22Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionRapid increases in educational attainment and the massification of secondary education in South Africa resulted in substantial differences in the supply and quality of educated workers across generations. This paper describes changes in the distribution of education across birth cohorts and how these relate to changes in the probability of employment, the distribution of earnings and the earnings premiums to complete secondary and tertiary education. Tracking cohorts over time allows us to disentangle generational and life-cycle components of these changes. Younger cohorts are shown to have increasingly faced worse labour market conditions than their predecessors, although this may be changing for cohorts born after 1980. Furthermore, the relative reward to complete secondary and tertiary education has remained positive, and increased for tertiary educated cohorts born since the 1960s. Increases in earnings inequality among those with complete secondary education suggests increased variance in education quality during the period when completed secondary education expanded rapidly.
dc.descriptionArdington, Branson, Lam and Leibbrandt acknowledge funding for this paper from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Supporting Inclusive Growth Programme. Ardington, Branson and Leibbrandt acknowledge support for this work from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grand Challenge. Leibbrandt acknowledges the Research Chairs Initiative of the NRF and DST for funding his work.
dc.identifier978-1-920517-46-5
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/621
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Educational attainment KW - Earnings KW - Employment KW - South Africa KW - Cohort analysis LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis TI - Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/621 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/621
dc.languageen
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.relationWorking Paper;105
dc.subjectEducational attainment
dc.subjectEarnings
dc.subjectEmployment
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectCohort analysis
dc.titleChanges in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis
dc.typeWorking Paper
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceWorking Paperen_ZA
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