There has been very little detailed exploration of the relationship between wage income and household inequality in South Africa despite the relevance of this issue for many contemporary growth and development policy debates. This article is directed at such an analysis. It uses a decomposition of ...
This article analyses household income mobility among Africans in South Africa's most populous province, KwaZulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialised and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in South Africa. This...
This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the allocation of resources in African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e., goods consumed by specific household members, to b...
household debt as a share of disposable income fell slightly. The debt-to-income ratio dropped from 63.0% to 62.2%. This decrease meant that income growth outpaced debt accumulation. The cost of servicing debt also eased, falling from 9.2% to 9.1% of disposable income. South Africa’s Econo...
MEASURING POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA This paper compares a standard expenditure-based poverty measure with a specifically created composite measure of deprivation using household survey data f... S Klasen - 《Review of Income & Wealth》 被引量: 494发表: 2010年 Seasonality of income ...
In South Africa, pension income received by women has been shown to have a larger impact on the health status of children than pension income received by men (Duflo, 2003). In this paper, we use a novel field experiment to investigate to what extent differences in preferences within couples...
Distribution pattern of households' income inequality in Eastern Cape, South Africa: Application of regression-based decomposition of inequality Income inequality is a pervasive problem in South Africa and particularly affects the Eastern Cape, where poverty levels remain high despite several effort... SO...
The 1999 October Household Survey was the first time that Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) introduced a master sample of Enumeration Areas (Stats SA, 2000a). There were several important changes in sampling and field worker practice that accompanied the introduction of the master sample of EAs...
Eat, drink, man, woman: Gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa Social Forces, 91 (2013), pp. 813-836 Google Scholar Haddad et al., 1996 L. Haddad, A. Pena, C. Nishida, A. Quisumbing, A. Slack Food security and nutritional implications of intrahousehold bias: ...
Intra-household distributionPositive assortative matingThis study unpacks the question of subjective wellbeing (SWB) inequality between partners in South Africa in the context of declining overall SWB inequality. The analysis, using the National Income Dynamics Study panel for the period 2012鈥 2016, ...