The Present as a Legacy of the Past: The Labour Market, Inequality and Poverty in South Africa

Servaas van der Berg () and Haroon Bhorat

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

Abstract: This paper provides an analysis of poverty in South Africa by focussing on the labour market. 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.

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)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 1999-08
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, August 1999, pages 1-30

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