This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before entering a period of premature deindustrialization....

OVERVIEW. - Economic policy in South Africa-past, present and future / Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube --. - PART 1: THE ECONOMICS OF POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. - Twenty years of economic policymaking-putting people first / Trevor Manuel --. - South Africa's growth...

The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing and mining (i.e. deindustrialization) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy. Employment patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is...

Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...