Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market

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dc.contributor.authorYu, Derek
dc.contributor.authorNaidoo, Karmen
dc.contributor.authorStanwix, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-12T08:40:35Z
dc.date.available2021-03-12T08:40:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractDuring the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines. Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress. In this paper we use three sets of household surveys (1994, 2001 and 2011) to provide a picture of wage discrimination in post-apartheid South Africa, after almost twenty years of democratic rule. Evidence suggests that discrimination in the labour market has decreased since 1994 but unsurprisingly remains a determinant of differential earnings between race groups. We also use a Re-centred Influence Function (RIF) approach to decompose the impact of discrimination across the wage distribution, and we track this over time. This allows us to make observations about the relationship between discrimination and wage levels: Discrimination appears to decrease with higher wages, and some of the largest decreases in measured discrimination are evident at higher wage levelsen_US
dc.identifier.citationYu, D. et al. (2014). Reflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour market. Development Policy Research Unit, 14/39en_US
dc.identifier.uri10.13140/RG.2.1.5060.3760
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5986
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Cape Townen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectRacial discriminationen_US
dc.subjectPost-apartheiden_US
dc.subjectLabour marketen_US
dc.subjectWage discriminationen_US
dc.titleReflecting on racial discrimination in the post-apartheid South African labour marketen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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