Earnings Inequality in South Africa, 1995 – 2003
by WOOLARD, I. & WOOLARD, C. , 2006Employment Growth & Development Initiative Occasional Paper No. 1. Cape Town : Human Sciences Research Council Press
Woolard and Woolard use October Household Survey and Labour Force Survey data to establish whether the real earnings gap between highly skilled and low-skilled workers in the formal sector of the South African economy narrowed or widened between 1995 and 2003. It also assesses changes in the earnings gap between whites and other race groups,…
read more >>A Review of labour Markets in South Africa: Wage Trends and Dynamics in South Africa
by ALTMAN, M., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Wages play an important role in the broader economy from both efficiency and equity perspectives. Wage formation also lies at the heart of a power play between workers and employers. As part of a broader labour market review, Altman considers the state of knowledge on wage determination in South Africa. She assesses whether wage setting…
read more >>Revisiting South African Employment Trends in the 1990’s
by ALTMAN, M, 2008South African Journal of Economics Vol. 76:S2 August 2008
This article revisits South African employment trends recorded since 1995. In particular, it investigates whether the job losses and gains recorded by the October Household Survey jobs in the mid-1990s reflect the reality. This is done by comparing the different official data sets, and by exploring alternative sources of information for three sectors that substantially…
read more >>A comparison of the old and new weights of the LFS data: 2000-2005
by WOOLARD, C & WOOLARD, I, 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
This report compares the population weights from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) data-sets as originally released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) with the reweighted data-sets released in September 2005. Some conclusions are also drawn about the applicability of the data for the generation of nuanced statistics.
read more >>Review of Employment and Remuneration Trends for Selected Sectors in the South African Economy
by ALTMAN, M., GOSTNER, K. LEE, D., TREGENNA, F. VAN DER HEIJDEN, T. , 2005Research report, Employment and Economic Policy Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria. Prepared for the SA Presidency.
Altman et al. examine formal sector employment trends in the South African economy since the mid-1990s and assess the reliability and accuracy of employment data from a variety of sources. This was an important issue for employment research, especially during the period that the statistical agency was remodeled and nationally representative surveys on population, labour…
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