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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
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The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesWelcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979–80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada’s history, but the eventual integration of these refugees into Canadian society has received insufficient attention. This study provides a...
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Taking stock of South African income inequalityWe synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa’s very high income inequality. These papers use new datasets—including income tax data—and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and individual...
Policy Brief
Reducing inequalities in South AfricaSouth Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted. South Africa’s position as highest inequality country in the world has...
Journal Article
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in ChinaThe informal sector has long been viewed as a locus of the disadvantaged, unskilled, and inexperienced workers in under-developed and developing economies. Workers in the informal sector, however, can learn skills and gain experience that could help...
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COVID-19 and informal workThis paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study...
Policy Brief
Tasks, skills, and institutionsConcerns about widening income inequality within countries continue to gain prominence in public debate worldwide. In the last decade, attention to the concentration of income at the very top of the distribution (top 1%) has increased. This...
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Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdataOverall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver of inequality.In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and administrative tax...
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Tasks, Skills, and InstitutionsDeveloped countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expense of those in the middle. This pattern has been attributed to...
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Earnings and employment microdata in South AfricaTraditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made...
Book Chapter
Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economyPart of Book The Job Ladder
Technical Note
A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for South Africa with occupational and capital stock detailThis technical note describes the compilation of a 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for South Africa. SAMs are economy-wide databases that are used together with analytical techniques to strengthen evidence-based policy analysis. This SAM is based...
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