Economic structure and top earnings inequality in South Africa: A firm-level and sectoral perspective

Rafael de la Vega

No wp-2025-39, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Inequality at the top is on the rise, and labour income is a progressively larger contributor to concentration at the top. This paper investigates top earnings inequality in South Africa from a sectoral and firm-level perspective, using matched employer-employee administrative data. We also propose a method for decomposing top shares in within-groups and between-groups components.

Keywords: Structural change; Top incomes; Earnings inequality; Inequality decomposition; Administrative data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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