Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?
Stephanie Rossouw and
Talita Greyling (talitag@uj.ac.za)
No 793, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa
Abstract:
Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality to ascertain the contributing factors and to determine whether policy has been successful in improving the spread over time. In this paper, we construct a multidimensional composite wellbeing measure, at a micro level, which includes “economic and non-economic” and “objective and subjective measures” of wellbeing. We use NIDS […]
Keywords: capital market; economic growth; inequality; Other Macroeconomic Variables; Quantitative Methods; Social welfare; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 I31 O18 O55 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09-01
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