Social Policy to Address Poverty

Servaas van der Berg

Working Papers from University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract: Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has long been dependent on immigration to supply its labour requirements, a phenomenon deeply rooted in the provinces early economic history and the development of mining and heavy industry. As far as possible, the analysis compared in-migrants to non-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges that in-migrant households may present. The Labour Force Survey module on migrant labour allowed the profiling of migrant labourers and the approximation of economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances. The study found that a large proportion of Gauteng residents were born outside the province, or moved into the province in the inter-census period, indicating a relatively mobile population.

Keywords: South Africa: immigration; Gauteng; in-migrants; non-migrants; intra-Gauteng migrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-08
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, August 1999, pages 1-32

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