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Social Policy to Address Poverty

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  • Servaas van der Berg

    (University of Stellenbosch)

Abstract

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. 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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  • Servaas van der Berg, 1999. "Social Policy to Address Poverty," Working Papers 99030, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
    • Handle: RePEc:ctw:wpaper:99030
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    Cited by:

    1. Paul Allanson & Jonathan Atkins, 2005. "The Evolution of the Racial Wage Hierarchy in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(6), pages 1023-1050.
    2. Nic Spaull, 2011. "A Preliminary Analysis of SACMEQ III South Africa," Working Papers 11/2011, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
    3. Paul Allanson & Jonathan Atkins, 2003. "Accounting for the Persistence of Racial Wage Differences in Post- Apartheid South Africa," Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 157, Economic Studies, University of Dundee.

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    Keywords

    South Africa: immigration; Gauteng; in-migrants; non-migrants; intra-Gauteng migrants;
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    JEL classification:

    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics

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