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the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …
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the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …
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inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect …
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We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty reduction impacts of a selection of medium-to-long-term social grant options with the goal of replacing the existing special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its...
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Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of … inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …
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Africa, levels of inequality remain stubbornly high. The focused contribution of this paper is to examine the role of income … from different sources driving these high levels of inequality, and which ones cause changes over time. We use data from … from 2008 and 2014 to assess the role of different income sources in overall inequality and compare snapshots of the level …
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We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased returns to experience and an increased rate of return to tertiary … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …
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In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the … South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 … was high and relatively stable, there were nonetheless some interesting shifts in the factors generating inequality. The …
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We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased returns to experience and an increased rate of return to tertiary … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962575
Africa, levels of inequality remain stubbornly high. The focused contribution of this paper is to examine the role of income … from different sources driving these high levels of inequality, and which ones cause changes over time. We use data from … from 2008 and 2014 to assess the role of different income sources in overall inequality and compare snapshots of the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947039