Working Papers http://hdl.handle.net/11090/12 2026-07-30T01:01:55Z 2026-07-30T01:01:55Z Eyal, Katherine Keswell, Malcolm http://hdl.handle.net/11090/863 2017-03-30T10:18:49Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension Eyal, Katherine; Keswell, Malcolm This paper investigates the income effects of the South African Social Pension. Using data from three waves of the the Labour Force Survey, we find that there appears to be a significant negative association between labour supply and pension receipt. However, we find little evidence to support the view that these results can be interpreted as pure income effects. Rather, the evidence suggests that the association is driven by age-cohort effects, which we argue reflects the burden of living with the elderly. We also report preliminary evidence which is suggestive of endogenous household formation in response to eligibility for the social pension.

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Meth, C. http://hdl.handle.net/11090/53 2013-04-07T14:55:53Z 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z

What was the poverty headcount in 2004 and how does it compare to recent estimates by van der Berg et al? Meth, C.

2006-06-01T00:00:00Z Lund, Francis Ardington, Cally http://hdl.handle.net/11090/52 2014-02-06T11:50:53Z 2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

Employment status, security, and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal Lund, Francis; Ardington, Cally The study investigates the concept of security in relationship to work and employment. Work has conventionally been seen as the pathway to economic security; however, the growth in the numbers of people in the informal economy and in atypical forms of formal work has led to work being a source of risk and vulnerability for some categories of workers. We propose that security has separate components: income, health, education, employment and skill reproduction, place of work, demand, capital, and the ability to manage risk. We use eighteen indicators for the wage employed and six for the self-employed to estimate the extent of formality of employment, and use these to assess the components of work-related security for those in different employment statuses. This framework was applied to data collected in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal in 2003. As expected, the self-employed were generally more vulnerable than those in wage employment, and there was clear gender segmentation in the labour market. However, differentiating the wage employed into three clusters based on the degree of formality of their employment revealed a more complex and nuanced picture.

2006-08-01T00:00:00Z Jakoet, J. http://hdl.handle.net/11090/51 2013-04-07T14:50:38Z 2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

Assimilation of Immigrants to the Cape Town Labour Market Jakoet, J.

2006-09-01T00:00:00Z