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  • The measurement of earnings in the post-Apartheid period: An overview 
    Wittenberg, Martin; Pirouz, Farah (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2013-09)
    Introduction: Earnings questions have been asked in South Africa’s national surveys annually since 1994. A key question for labour economists has been to track and explain the evolution of earnings over this post-apartheid ...
  • A National Minimum Wage in the Context of the South African Labour Market 
    Finn, Arden (2015-09)
    Understanding the composition and wage structure of the South African labour market is crucial in the progressing national minimum wage debate in the country. This study highlights the centrality of wages in household ...
  • Public employment and livelihood trajectories in South Africa's constrained labour market 
    Essa, Zak (2025-03)
    This year more than one million people will participate in Public Employment programmes (PEPs) in South Africa. These programmes involve the provision of work that is state funded but outside the usual structure of the ...
  • Reservation Wages-Measurement and Determinants: Evidence from the KMP Survey 
    Walker, Richard (CSSR and SALDRU, 2003-08)
    This paper investigates the difficulties in measuring reservation wages, models the determinants of reservation wages, and compares reservation wages with predicted wages. Data is drawn from the Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain ...
  • Review of Youth Labour Market Research 
    Branson, Nicola; De Lannoy, Ariane; Brynde, K (2019-02)
    This policy brief provides an overview of the evidence on the precarious connection between youth and the labour market in South Africa. Drawing on almost 10 years of data collected by the National Income Dynamics Study ...

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