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2009: Labour Reform in South Africa: Measuring Regulation and a Synthesis of Policy Suggestions

Haroon Bhorat and Halton Cheadle

2009: Income and Non-Income Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: What are the Drivers and Possible Policy Interventions?

Haroon Bhorat, Carlene van der Westhuizen and Toughedah Jacobs

2009: Understanding the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Dispute Resolution System in South Africa:An Analysis of CCMA Data

Haroon Bhorat, Karl Pauw and Liberty Mncube

2009: A Synthesis of Current Issues in the Labour Regulatory Environment

Haroon Bhorat and Carlene van der Westhuizen

2009: Analysing Wage Formation in the South African Labour Market: The Role of Bargaining Councils

Haroon Bhorat, Carlene van der Westhuizen and Sumayya Goga

2008: An Analysis of Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration Awards

Ian Macun, Daniel Lopes, Paul Benjamin and Jonathan Gunthorpe

2008: Poverty and ‘Second Economy’ in South Africa: An Attempt to Clarify Applicable Concepts and Quantify Extent of Relevant Challenges

Vusi Gumede

2008: Seta Review

Carmel Marock, Candice Harrison-Train, Bobby Soobrayan and Jonathan Gunthorpe

2007: Costing, Comparing and Competing Developing an Approach to the Benchmarking of Labour Market Regulation

Paul Benjamin and Jan Theron

2007: The State of Collective Bargaining in South Africa: An Empirical and Conceptual Study of Collective Bargaining

Shane Godfrey, Jan Theron and Margareet Visser

2007: Consumer Price Inflation across the Income Distribution in South Africa

Morne Oosthuizen

2007: Welfare Shifts in the Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Comprehensive Measurement of Changes

Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga and Carlene van der Westhuizen

2007: Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints

Karl Pauw and Liberty Mncube

2007: The Impact of Growth and Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa

Karl Pauw and Liberty Mncube

2007: Setas – A Vehicle for the Skills Revolution?

Renee Grawitzky

2007: The International Literature on Skills Training and the Scope for South African Application

Sean Archer

2007: Sticking to the Facts: Official and Unofficial Stories about Poverty and Unemployment in South Africa

Charles Meth

2007: Have Pro-Poor Health Policies Improved the Targeting of Spending and the Effective Delivery of Health Care in South Africa?

Ronelle Burger and Christelle Grobler

2007: Skills Shortages in South Africa: A Literature Review

Reza Daniels

2007: Unemployment, Education and Skills Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Rosa Dias and Dorrit Posel

2007: Regulating Flexibility and Small Business: Revisiting the LRA and BCEA. A Response to Halton Cheadle’s Concept Paper

André van Niekerk

2007: Women in the South African Labour Market, 1995 - 2005

Carlene van der Westhuizen, Sumayya Goga and Morne Oosthuizen

2007: Wage Trends in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constructing an Earnings Series from Household Survey Data

Rulof Burger and Derek Yu

2007: An Exploratory Look into Labour Market Regulation

Anton Roskam

2006: Graduate Unemployment in the Context of Skills Shortages, Education and Training: Findings from a Firm Survey

Karl Pauw, Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga, Liberty Ncube, Morne Oosthuizen and Carlene van der Westhuizen

2006: Graduate Unemployment in the Face of Skills Shortages: A Labour Market Paradox

Karl Pauw, Morne Oosthuizen and Carlene van der Westhuizen

2006: The Regulatory Environment and SMMEs. Evidence from South African Firm Level Data

Neil Rankin

2006: The Impacts of Sector-Specific Policies and Regulations on the Growth of SMES in Eight Sectors of the South African Economy

Sbp

2006: Risks to Global Trade and Implications for South Africa’s Economy and Policy

Jeremy Wakeford

2006: The Regulatory Efficiency of the CCMA: A Statistical Analysis of the CCMA’s CMS Database

Paul Benjamin and Carola Gruen

2006: Regulated Flexibility and Small Business: Revisiting the LRA and the BCEA

Halton Cheadle

2006: Shifts in Non-Income Welfare in South Africa: 1993-2004

Haroon Bhorat, Carlene van der Westhuizen and Pranushka Naidoo

2006: Impact of Municipal Regulations on SMMEs

AFReC, Bees and McA

2006: Conditions of Employment and Small Business: Coverage, Compliance and Exemptions

Shane Godfrey, Johann Maree and Jan Theron

2006: Recent Findings on Tax-Related Regulatory Burden on SMMEs in South Africa. Literature Review and Policy Options

Doubell Chamberlain and Anja Smith

2006: Trends in Poverty and Inequality since the Political Transition

Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, Rulof Burger, Megan Louw and Derek Yu

2006: The Post-Apartheid Labour Market: 1995-2004

Morne Oosthuizen

2006: Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa

Richard Devey, Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia

2005: Poverty and Well-being in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Overview of Data, Outcomes and Policy

Haroon Bhorat and Ravi Kanbur

2005: Have Labour Market Outcomes Affected Household Structure in South Africa? A Descriptive Analysis of Households

Farah Pirouz

2005: The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa’s Domestic Service Workers

Tom Hertz

2005: Market Failure, Human Capital, and Job Search Dynamics in South Africa: The Case of Duncan Village

Patrick Duff and David Fryer

2005: ‘Two Million Net New Jobs’: A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995-2003

Daniela Casale, Colette Muller and Dorrit Posel

2005: Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?

Geeta Kingdon and John Knight

2005: Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Geeta Kingdon and John Knight

2005: Measuring Recent Changes in South African Inequality and Poverty using 1996 and 2001 Census Data

Murray Leibbrandt, Laura Poswell, Pranushka Naidoo, Matthew Welch and Ingrid Woolard

2005: The Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market

Morne Oosthuizen and Haroon Bhorat

2005: Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa: A Descriptive Overview

Haroon Bhorat

2005: Estimating an Earnings Function from Coarsened Data by an Interval Censored Regression Procedure

Reza Daniels and Sandrine Rospabé

2004: Homing in on the Core – Households Incomes, Income Sources and Geography in South Africa

Sten Dieden

2004: Half Measures: The ANC's Unemployment and Poverty Reduction Goals

Charles Meth

2004: Internal Migration to the Gauteng Province

Morne Oosthuizen and Pranushka Naidoo

2004: Emergent Black Affluence and Social Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Rulof Burger, Ronelle Burger and Servaas van der Berg

2004: Coordination Failure and Employment in South Africa

David Fryer and Désiré Vencatachellum

2004: Productivity, Wages and Employment in South Africa’s Manufacturing Sector, 1970-2002

Jeremy Wakeford

2004: What has the Feminisation of the Labour Market ‘Bought’ Women in South Africa? Trends in Labour Force Participation, Employment and Earnings, 1995-2001

Daniela Casale

2004: Poverty and Labour Market Markers of HIV+ House holds: An Exploratory Methodological Analysis

Haroon Bhorat and Najma Shaikh