Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both...

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...

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...

Der Umfang der Armut ist in den neun südafrikanischen Provinzen sehr unterschiedlich. Eine genaue Kenntnis des relativen Armutsniveaus und daraus abgeleitet der entsprechenden Rangfolge der Provinzen ist wichtig als Schlüssel für Art und Umfang sozialer Ausgaben. Im vorliegenden Beitrag...