Earnings inequality in South Africa 1995-2003
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Woolard, C.Woolard
KEYWORDS: SALARY INCOME, SKILLS PROFILE
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/earnings-inequality-in-south-africa-1995-2003
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4405
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6228
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6228
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Woolard, C.Woolard
KEYWORDS: SALARY INCOME, SKILLS PROFILE
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/earnings-inequality-in-south-africa-1995-2003
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4405
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6228
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6228
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Abstract
It is generally accepted that the gap between the earnings of unskilled and semi-skilled workers on the one hand, and skilled and highly skilled workers, on the other, narrowed in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. This paper investigates whether the gap between the real earnings of highly skilled and low-skilled workers in the formal sector of the South African economy continued to narrow after this country's transition to democracy. Statistics South Africa's October Household Survey and Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1995 to 2003 are analysed, and the authors also assess changes in the earnings gap between whites and other race groups in that period, and between men and women.-
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