Mind the gap: The distributional effects of South Africa’s national lockdown on gender wage inequality
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COVID-19; NIDS-CRAM; Wave 2; South Africa; gender wage inequality Recentred Influence Function (RIF) regressions; lockdown;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEN-2021-08-09 (Gender)
- NEP-ISF-2021-08-09 (Islamic Finance)
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