Discrimination is Declining in South Africa But Inequality is Not

P Moll

Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 2000, vol. 24, issue 3, 91-108

Abstract: This paper looks at the changing importance of discrimination in wage determination between 1980 and 1993. The white-African earnings gap is decomposed into explained components (i.e. education and experience) and unexplained components (occupation and wage discrimination). The key finding is that total discrimination fell from 20% of the African wage in 1980 to 12% in 1993. Occupational discrimination, however, rose over the period, primarily a result of the exclusion of qualified Africans from the professional and technical categories.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/03796205.2000.12129278

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