Poverty and Ethnicity Among Black South Africans

Carlos Gradín ()

No wp-2014-113, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show that these gaps are largely associated with the former groups having an accumulation of disadvantages in location, demographic structure, education, and labour market outcomes.

Keywords: Ethnic relations; Income; Internal migration; Poverty; Poverty measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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