J21 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: J21

Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

The Sectoral Employment Intensity of Growth in South Africa

Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the So...

Njabulo Mkhize

Working Paper

The impact of health on the employment and earnings of young South Africans

This paper estimates the impact of health on employment and earning...

Chijioke O. Nwosu

Working Paper

Impact on Health on Labour Force Participation in South Africa

This paper quantifies the impact of health on labour force particip...

Ingrid Woolard, Chijioke O. Nwosu

Working Paper

Happy in the Informal Economy? A Case Study of Well-Being Among Day Labourers in South ...

Past research provided evidence of the negative effect that individ...

Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck, Ilse Botha, Christie Schoeman

Working Paper

Micro-evidence on day labourers and the thickness of labour markets in South Africa

The South African labour market is characterised by sharp segmentat...

Waldo F. Krugell, Phillip F. Blaauw

Working Paper

Underemployed women: an analysis of voluntary and involuntary part-time wage employment...

Using nationally representative household survey data from 1995 to ...

Colette Muller

Working Paper

Trends in the gender wage gap and gender discrimination among part-time and full-time w...

Using nationally representative household survey data from 1995 to ...

Colette Muller

Working Paper

Is there evidence of a wage penalty to female part-time employment in South Africa?

In this paper, we investigate female part-time employment in South ...

Colette Muller, Dorrit Posel

Working Paper

Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice mod...

The abolition of apartheid should have improved the employment pros...

Martin Wittenberg

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