Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data

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dc.contributor.authorYu, Derek
dc.contributor.authorBurger, Rulof
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-05T09:26:21Z
dc.date.available2021-03-05T09:26:21Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractRecent research on South African labour-market trends has suggested that workers have, on average, experienced a substantial decrease in their real wage earnings in the post-apartheid era. This paper will show that this claim is based on choosing datasets on either side of Statistics South Africa’s changeover from the October Household Survey (OHS) to the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which caused a discontinuous and inexplicably large drop in average earnings. By using all the household datasets after 1994, one can attempt to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to construct a more comparable earnings time series. Taking account of the inconsistencies in questionnaire design and the presence of outliers, it is possible to construct a fairly stable earnings series for formal-sector employees.en_US
dc.identifier.citationYu, D., & Burger, R. (2006). Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data. Labour Market Frontiers, Stellenbosch Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ideas.repec.org/p/ctw/wpaper/07117.html
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5962
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Reserve Banken_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectEarningsen_US
dc.subjectWagesen_US
dc.subjectLabour market trendsen_US
dc.titleWage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey dataen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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