Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data

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dc.contributor.author Wittenberg, Martin
dc.date.accessioned 2014-10-23T11:11:49Z
dc.date.available 2014-10-23T11:11:49Z
dc.date.issued 2014-10
dc.identifier.citation Wittenberg, M. (2014). Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 135 and DataFirst Technical Paper 26. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-920517-77-9
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/767
dc.description.abstract We analyse the long‐term trends in wages in South Africa, using the data from the October Household Surveys, Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Labour Force Surveys. We show that outliers and missing data need to be taken into consideration when working with these data. Our results show that overall mean real earnings among employees has risen over this period. Median real earnings, by contrast, have lagged. We show that the top end of the earnings distribution has moved away from the median, while there seems to have been a relative compression of the distribution right at the bottom. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This paper draws on and extends work reported on in two working papers, Wittenberg and Pirouz (2013) and Wittenberg (2014). Some of the original data work was done with the support of an infrastructure grant to DataFirst from the Redi3x3 project on “Employment/Unemployment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growthʺ. The Vice‐Chancellor’s Strategic Fund of the University of Cape Town paid for the initial construction of the PALMS dataset without which this research would not have been possible. The ILO commissioned some of the initial analyses of wage trends, which are reported in Wittenberg (2014). I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and support from Patrick Belser and Kristen Sobeck in that work. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries SALDRU Working Paper;135
dc.subject South Africa en_US
dc.subject Inequality en_US
dc.subject Earnings en_US
dc.subject Data Quality en_US
dc.subject Multiple Imputation en_US
dc.title Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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