The Changing Nature of Inequality in South Africa

Carolyn Jenkins and Lynne Thomas

No wp-2000-203, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The dispersion of racial incomes in South Africa has been declining since the mid 1970s. This has been accompanied by rising within-group inequality, especially amongst blacks, driven by growing unemployment. Consequently, there has been little improvement in aggregate indicators of inequality. In this study, it is argued that labour market changes resulting from the breakdown of apartheid in the workplace dominated shifts in the distribution of income during the 1970s and 1980s. Subsequently, the effects of liberalization have been more influential.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Labour market; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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