Modelling Vulnerability and Low Earnings in the South African Labour Market

Murray Leibbrandt and Haroon Bhorat

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

Abstract: Drawing on a comparative overview of the earnings function work on South Africa, this article presents an alternative and comprehensive model of earnings in the South African 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: model of earnings; rural labour markets; In-migrants; remittances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1999-10
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, October 1999, pages 1-28

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