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Publications

by alumni of

University of the Witwatersrand → Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management → School of Economic and Finance

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Working papers

2025

  1. Anis Foresto & Monique Reid & Jeffrey Rakgalakane, 2025, "State dependence of the Phillips curve what does this mean for monetary policy," Working Papers, South African Reserve Bank, number 11080, Jun.

2024

  1. Monique Reid & Dieter von Fintel & Anis Foresto, 2024, "From deliberate sample to representative sample pilot study for the BER inflation expectations survey," Working Papers, South African Reserve Bank, number 11068, Oct.

2023

  1. Martin Wittenberg & Murray Leibbrandt, 2023, "Investigating inequality trends in Africa: ACEIR research and the WIID," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2023-102.

2022

  1. Takwanisa Machemedze & Mercy Shoko & Mark Collinson & Martin Wittenberg, 2022, "Measuring rural households and electricity access: A comparison of national census data and small-area health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) data," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 290.

2021

  1. Martin Wittenberg & Nicola Branson, 2021, "Creating household weights for NIDS-CRAM," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 280.
  2. Amy Thornton & Martin Wittenberg, 2021, "Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: representativeness, household counts, and small households," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 283.

2020

  1. Adeola Oyenubi & Martin Wittenberg, 2020, "Does the choice of balance-measure matter under Genetic Matching?," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 819, May.

2019

  1. Motshidisi Nthatisi & Martin Wittenberg, 2019, "Changes in South African well-being between 2008/9 and 2014/15: The evidence from expenditure and asset data," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 252.
  2. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg, 2019, "Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number wp-2019-47.

2018

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2018, "The top tail of South Africa's earnings distribution 1993-2014: Evidence from the Pareto distribution," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 224.
  2. Martin Wittenberg & Mark Collinson, 2018, "Household formation and service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt sub-district 1992-2012," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 230.

2017

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2017, "Economics and Transformation: Measurements, Models, Maths and Myths," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 211.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2017, "Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 212.
  3. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg, 2017, "Public sector wages and employment in South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 214.

2016

  1. Liz Neyens & Martin Wittenberg, 2016, "Changes in self-employment in the agricultural sector, South Africa: 1994-2012," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 173.
  2. Tom Harris & Mark Collinson & Martin Wittenberg, 2016, "Aiming for a moving target: The dynamics of household electricity access in a developing context," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 195.

2015

  1. Martin Wittenberg & Leibbrandt, Murray, 2015, "Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A general approach with application to South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 141.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2015, "Problems with SWIID: the case of South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 148.
  3. Muna Shifa & Murray Leibbrandt & Martin Wittenberg, 2015, "Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia?," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 150.

2014

  1. Wittenberg, Martin., 2014, "Analysis of employment, real wage, and productivity trends in South Africa since 1994," ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization, number 994847703402676.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2014, "Union selection effects - some inconsistent models," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 133.
  3. Martin Wittenberg, 2014, "Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 135.

2013

  1. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg & Jairo Arrow, 2013, "Job Creation and Destruction in South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 092.
  2. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg, 2013, "Sampling methodology and field work changes in the october household surveys and labour force surveys," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 101.
  3. Wittenberg, Martin & Pirouz, Farah, 2013, "The measurement of earnings in the post-Apartheid period: An overview," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 108.
  4. Wittenberg, Martin, 2013, "Non-monetary dimensions of well-being: A comment," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 110.

2011

  1. Nicola Branson & Martin Wittenberg, 2011, "Re-weighting South African National Household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 54, Feb.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2011, "The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well-being in South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 65, Sep.

2009

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2009, "Sample Survey Calibration: An Informationtheoretic perspective," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 41, Oct.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2009, "Lazy Rotten Sons? Relatedness, gender and the intra-household allocation of work and leisure in South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 28, Jan.
  3. Martin Wittenberg, 2009, "Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 29, Feb.
  4. Martin Wittenberg, 2009, "Weighing the value of Asset Proxies: The case of the Body Mass Index in South Africa," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 39, Sep.

2008

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2008, "Nonparametric estimation when income is reported in bands and at points," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 094, Sep.

2007

  1. Martin Wittenberg & Mark Collinson, 2007, "Restructuring of Households in Rural South Africa: Reflections on Average Household Size in the Agincourt Sub-district 1992-2003," SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 12, Nov.
  2. Wittenberg, Martin, 2007, "Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 2550, Mar.
  3. Martin Wittenberg, 2007, "Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice model while dealing with unobservables," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 046, Jan.

2005

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2005, "The school day in South Africa," SALDRU/CSSR Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 113.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2005, "Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression: Or how to "fix" a bad variable by adding multiple proxies for it," SALDRU/CSSR Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 132.

2004

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2004, "The mystery of South Africa's ghost workers in 1996: measurement and mismeasurement in the manufacturing census, population census and October Household Surveys," SALDRU/CSSR Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, number 095.

2001

  1. Darren Lubotsky & Martin Wittenberg, 2001, "Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies," Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section., number 836, Sep.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2001, "Conflictual intra-household allocations," Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies., number 211, Feb.

Journal articles

2022

  1. Amy Thornton & Martin Wittenberg, 2022, "Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: Representativeness, household counts, and small households," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 90, issue 4, pages 513-534, December, DOI: 10.1111/saje.12319.

2021

  1. Kerr, Andrew & Wittenberg, Martin, 2021, "Union wage premia and wage inequality in South Africa," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, volume 97, issue C, pages 255-271, DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.12.005.
  2. Adeola Oyenubi & Martin Wittenberg, 2021, "Does the choice of balance-measure matter under genetic matching?," Empirical Economics, Springer, volume 61, issue 1, pages 489-502, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-020-01873-9.

2020

  1. Jacqueline Mosomi & Mrtin Wittenberg, 2020, "The labor market in South Africa, 2000–2017," World of Labour, LISER, pages 475-475, April.
  2. Martin Wittenberg & Mark A. Collinson, 2020, "Household formation and service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt sub-district 1992–2012," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 37, issue 4, pages 708-726, July, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2020.1764335.

2017

  1. Martin Wittenberg & Murray Leibbrandt, 2017, "Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A General Approach with Application to South Africa," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, volume 63, issue 4, pages 706-730, December, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12286.
  2. Martin Wittenberg, 2017, "Wages and Wage Inequality in South Africa 1994–2011: Part 1 – Wage Measurement and Trends," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 85, issue 2, pages 279-297, June.
  3. Martin Wittenberg, 2017, "Wages and Wage Inequality in South Africa 1994–2011: Part 2 – Inequality Measurement and Trends," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 85, issue 2, pages 298-318, June.
  4. Martin Wittenberg & Mark Collinson & Tom Harris, 2017, "Decomposing changes in household measures: Household size and services in South Africa, 1994–2012," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, volume 37, issue 39, pages 1297-1326, DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.39.
  5. Harris, Tom & Collinson, Mark & Wittenberg, Martin, 2017, "Aiming for a Moving Target: The Dynamics of Household Electricity Connections in a Developing Context," World Development, Elsevier, volume 97, issue C, pages 14-26, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.016.

2015

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2015, "Problems with SWIID: the case of South Africa," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, volume 13, issue 4, pages 673-677, December, DOI: 10.1007/s10888-015-9306-2.
  2. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg, 2015, "Sampling methodology and fieldwork changes in the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 32, issue 5, pages 603-612, September, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2015.1044079.

2014

  1. Andrew Kerr & Martin Wittenberg & Jairo Arrow, 2014, "Job Creation and Destruction in South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 82, issue 1, pages 1-18, March.
  2. Nicola Branson & Martin Wittenberg, 2014, "Reweighting South African National Household Survey Data to Create a Consistent Series Over Time: A Cross-Entropy Estimation Approach," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 82, issue 1, pages 19-38, March.

2013

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2013, "The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well-Being in Southern Africa," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, volume 59, issue , pages 62-83, October.
  2. Miracle Ntuli & Martin Wittenberg, 2013, "Determinants of Black Women's Labour Force Participation in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, volume 22, issue 3, pages 347-374, June.
  3. Martin Wittenberg, 2013, "Non-monetary dimensions of well-being: A comment," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 30, issue 6, pages 826-829, December, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.860875.

2011

  1. Wittenberg, Martin, 2011, "Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, volume 110, issue 2, pages 122-125, February.

2010

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2010, "An introduction to maximum entropy and minimum cross-entropy estimation using Stata," Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC, volume 10, issue 3, pages 315-330, September.

2009

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2009, "The Intra-Household Allocation of Work and Leisure in South Africa," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, volume 93, issue 1, pages 159-164, August, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9386-5.

2008

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2008, "To Prey Or Not To Prey? Welfare And Individual Losses In A Conflict Model1," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 76, issue 2, pages 239-265, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00175.x.

2007

  1. Nicola Branson & Martin Wittenberg, 2007, "The Measurement Of Employment Status In South Africa Using Cohort Analysis, 1994‐20041," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 75, issue 2, pages 313-326, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2007.00113.x.

2006

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2006, "Research Note: Errors In The October Household Survey 1994 Available From The South African Data Archive1," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 74, issue 4, pages 766-768, December, DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2006.00095.x.
  2. Darren Lubotsky & Martin Wittenberg, 2006, "Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, volume 88, issue 3, pages 549-562, August.

2004

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2004, "The Mystery Of South Africa'S Ghost Workers In 1996: Measurement And Mismeasurement In The Manufacturing Census, Population Census And October Household Surveys," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 72, issue 5, pages 1003-1022, December, DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2004.tb00142.x.

2002

  1. Martin Wittenberg, 2002, "Job Search In South Africa: A Nonparametric Analysis," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, volume 70, issue 8, pages 1163-1196, December, DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2002.tb00062.x.

Undated

  1. Dr. Monique Reid & Professor Dieter von Fintel & Mr. Anis Foresto, undated, "From deliberate sample to representative sample: pilot study for the BER inflation expectations survey," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number v::y:2025:i::id:134.
  2. Adeola Oyenubi & Martin Wittenberg, undated, "Does the choice of balance-measure matter under Genetic Matching?," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number v::y:2020:i::id:114.

Chapters

2016

  1. Vimal Ranchhod & Martin Wittenberg, 2016, "The Social Pension and Time Allocation in Poor South African Households," International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 7, in: Timothy Besley, "Contemporary Issues in Development Economics", DOI: 10.1057/9781137529749_7.

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