The evolution of female and male earnings inequality in post-Apartheid South Africa

Type Conference Paper - WIDER Development Conference
Title The evolution of female and male earnings inequality in post-Apartheid South Africa
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2019
City Bangkok
Country/State Thailand
URL https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Events/PDF/Slides/TransEconConf2019-Hundenborn-Janina.​pdf
Abstract
Despite affirmative action laws and other policy interventions implemented since the first democratic government in 1994, the inherited inequalities
have worsened in the post-apartheid era. This increase is driven by inequality from the labour market (Leibbrandt et al., 2010; Hundenborn et al., 2016). When analyzing the increase in inequality, there are two important issues to account for: 1) Due to the high levels of inequality, analysis has to go beyond the mean. 2) Imperative to account for the high levels of unemployment prevalent in South Africa

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