Market forces, and notably the role of trade openness, contribute to shaping inequality in South Africa and may limit the inclusiveness of its growth path. Recently, policy reforms may have helped to mitigate these effects. To better understand these developments, we analyse trends in post-tax...

This paper proposes a policy-decomposable approach to analysing informality that preserves the standard binary indicator of informal employment. The additive decomposition highlights (i) the role of the composition effects by status in employment, and (ii) the role of the within status...