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Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework

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Ingrid Woolard
Murray Leibbrandt () (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town)

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The existing work on household poverty and inequality in South Africa has shown that poverty and inequality differ markedly by race, location, education, gender of the head, household demographics and household labour market participation. The models confirm the ongoing importance of race as a fundamental factor structuring South African poverty and inequality even after the influence of all the other poverty and inequality correlates are accounted for. 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. The study found that a large proportion of Gauteng residents were born outside the province, or moved into the province in the inter-census period, indicating a relatively mobile population.

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Paper provided by University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit in its series Working Papers with number 9691.

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Date of creation: Dec 1999
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Publication status: Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, December 1999, pages 1-27
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Keywords: South Africa: household labour market participation; household poverty; inequality; race; location; education; gender of the head;

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  1. Glewwe, P., 1990. "Investigating The Determinants Of Household Welfare In Cote D'Ivoire," Papers 71, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement.
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  2. 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!]
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  1. Nanak Kakwani & Hyun H. Son & Richard Hinz, 2006. "Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya," Working Papers 24, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [Downloadable!]
  2. Murray Leibbrandt & Ingrid Woolard, 2001. "The labour market and household income inequality in South Africa: existing evidence and new panel data," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(6), pages 671-689. [Downloadable!]
  3. Pauw, Kalie, 2005. "Forming Representative Household and Factor Groups for a South African SAM," Technical Paper Series 15620, PROVIDE Project. [Downloadable!]
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