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    Book Chapter
    South Africa: employment and inequality trends

    Part of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions

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    Economic growth, rising inequality, and deindustrialisation

    Part of Book The Developer’s Dilemma

    Working Paper
    Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy

    Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization in...

    Working Paper
    Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa

    This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before...

    Working Paper
    Job spells in an emerging market

    Few studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets—an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structural...

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    How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequality

    In 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes. Tax authorities collect an enormous amount of...

    Working Paper
    Gender and the South African labour market

    This paper has three primary objectives. First, it provides a broad overview of the available South African data used to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data which has...

    Working Paper
    Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market

    Labour market analysis in the South African context provides a relatively robust understanding of the individual characteristics that influence wage differentials across workers (i.e. supply-side characteristics), but provides relatively little...

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