Wages and Wage Inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: Part 2 - Inequality Measurement and Trends

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wittenberg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Inequality Measurement

Trade, Skill Biased Technical Change and Wage Inequality in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørn Rattsø ◽  
Hildegunn E. Stokke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Technical Change

Labour unions and wage inequality among African men in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miracle Ntuli ◽  
Prudence Kwenda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Labour Unions

scholarly journals Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Paul Schultz ◽  
Germano Mwabu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Relative Wage ◽  
Wage Effect ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
African Youth ◽  
White Workers

Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage distribution, union membership was associated with wages that were 145% higher than those of comparable nonunion workers, and among those in the top decile the differential was 19%. Regression estimates also indicate that returns to observed productive characteristics of workers, such as education and experience, were larger for nonunion than union workers. If the large union relative wage effect were cut in half, the authors estimate that employment of African youth, age 16–29, would increase by two percentage points, and their labor force participation rate would also increase substantially.

Union wage premia and wage inequality in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Andrew Kerr ◽  
Martin Wittenberg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Premia

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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