Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework

Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

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

Abstract: The existing work on household poverty and inequality in South Africa has shown that poverty and inequality differ markedly by race, location, education, gender of the head, household demographics and household labour market participation. The models confirm the ongoing importance of race as a fundamental factor structuring South African poverty and inequality even after the influence of all the other poverty and inequality correlates are accounted for. 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: household labour market participation; household poverty; inequality; race; location; education; gender of the head (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1999-12
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, December 1999, pages 1-27

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