Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017

Rocco Zizzamia, Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt

No wp-2019-25, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element—the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of moving up—looms large in the economic lives of both the poor and the non-poor in South Africa.

Keywords: Economic inequality; Poverty Dynamics; Social stratification; Panel data analysis; Economic mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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