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Modelling Vulnerability and Low Earnings in the South African Labour Market

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Murray Leibbrandt
Haroon Bhorat () (Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town)

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Drawing on a comparative overview of the earnings function work on South Africa, this article presents an alternative and comprehensive model of earnings in the South African labour market. Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has long been dependent on immigration to supply its labour requirements, a phenomenon deeply rooted in the provinces early economic history and the development of mining and heavy industry. As far as possible, the analysis compared in-migrants to non-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges that in-migrant households may present. The Labour Force Survey module on migrant labour allowed the profiling of migrant labourers and the approximation of economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances.

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Paper provided by University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit in its series Working Papers with number 9690.

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Length: 28 pages
Date of creation: Oct 1999
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Publication status: Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, October 1999, pages 1-28
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Keywords: South Africa: model of earnings; rural labour markets; In-migrants; remittances;

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  1. Murray Leibbrandt & Haroon Bhorat, 1999. "Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market," Working Papers 9695, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. [Downloadable!]
  2. H. Bhorat & J. Hodge, 1999. "Decomposing Shifts in Labour Demand in South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 67(3), pages 155-168, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Morné Oosthuizen, 2006. "The Post-Apartheid Labour Market: 1995-2004," Working Papers 9618, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. [Downloadable!]
  2. Dieter von Fintel, 2006. "Earnings bracket obstacles in household surveys – How sharp are the tools in the shed?," Working Papers 08/2006, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. Cecil Mlatsheni & Sandrine Rospabé, 2002. "An Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of the Clothing and Textile Industry in SADC," Working Papers 9657, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. [Downloadable!]
  4. Doubell Chamberlain & Servaas van der Berg, 2002. "Earnings functions, labour market discrimination and quality of education in South Africa," Working Papers 02/2002, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Kalie Pauw & Morné Oosthuizen & Carlene van der Westhuizen, 2006. "Graduate Unemployment in the Face of Skills Shortages: A Labour Market Paradox," Working Papers 9604, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Rulof Burger & Rachel Jafta, 2006. "Returns to Race: Labour Market Discrimination in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Working Papers 04/2006, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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