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October Household Survey 1997

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1 Thomas, Viktor. "A conceptual and empirical investigation into measuring aspects of urban food security in 12 Southern African cities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011.
2 Serumaga-Zake, P., D. Kotze, and R. Madsen. "A descriptive study of the dynamics of relative poverty in the Western Cape Province of South Africa." Development Southern Africa 22, no. 1 (2005): 143-160.
3 Bhorat, Haroon. "A nation in search of jobs: Six possible policy suggestions for employment creation in South Africa." DPRU Working Paper 12/150 , no. 12/150 (2012).
4 Kumchulesi, Grace. "An economic analysis of declining marriages in post-apartheid South Africa: 1995-2006.." PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010.
5 Kingdon, Geeta, and John Knight. "Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa." CSAE Working Paper/2000-2 , no. 2000-2 (2000).
6 Kearney, Marna, and Ayodele Odusola. Assessing development strategies to achieve the MDGs in The Republic of South Africa. : United Nations Department for Social and Economic Affairs, 2011.
7 Simkins, Charles. "Can South Africa Avoid a Malthusian Positive Check?." Daedalus 130, no. 1 (2001): 123-150.
8 Fedderke, Johannes, Jeenesh Manga, and Farah Pirouz. "Challenging Cassandra: Household and per capita household income distribution in the October Household Surveys 1995-1999, Income and Expenditure Surveys 1995 & 2000, and the Labour Force Survey 2000." Economic Research Southern Africa , no. 13 (2004).
9 Branson, Nicola, Cally Ardington, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt. "Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis." Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit , no. 105 (2013).
10 Joubert, Jane, Chalapati Rao, Debbie Bradshaw, Rob E Dorrington, Theo Vos, and Alan D Lopez. "Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa." Global Health Action 5, no. 1 (2012).
11 Booysen, Frikkie, and Tanja Arntz. "Children of the storm: HIV/AIDS and children in South Africa.." Social Dynamics 28, no. 1 (2002): 170-192.
12 van den Brink, Rogier, Glen Thomas, Hans Binswanger, John Bruce, and Frank Byamugisha. "Consensus, confusion, and controversy: Selected land reform issues in Sub-Saharan Africa." World Bank Research Working Paper , no. 71 (2006).
13 Poswell, Laura. "Convexities and the returns to education in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003.
14 Fryer, David, and Désiré Vencatachellum. "Coordination failure and employment in South Africa." DPRU Working Paper , no. 04/86 (2004).
15 Von Fintel, Dieter. "Dealing with earnings bracket responses in Household Surveys - How sharp are midpoint imputations?." South African Journal of Economics 75, no. 2 (2007): 293-312.
16 Wittenberg, Martin, Mark Collinson, and Tom Harris. "Decomposing changes in household measures: Household size and services in South Africa, 1994–2012." Demographic Research 37, no. 39 (2017): 1297-1326.
17 Burger, Rulof, and Dieter Von Fintel. "Determining the causes of the rising South African unemployment rate: An age, period and generational analysis." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 24/09 (2009).
18 Wittenberg, Martin. "Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice model while dealing with unobservables." Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA Working Paper) , no. 46 (2007).
19 Gelderblom, Derik. "Does poverty constrain migration in South Africa? Evidence, explanations and implications." Development Southern Africa 24, no. 2 (2007): 241-255.
20 Woolard, Ingrid, and Chris Woolard. Earnings inequality in South Africa 1995-2003. : Human Sciences Research Council, 2006.
21 Branson, Nicola, Julia Garlick, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt. Education and inequality: The South African case. 2015.
22 Bhorat, Haroon. "Employment trends in South Africa." FES Occasional Paper , no. 2 (2001).
23 Bhorat, Haroon. "Explaining employment trends in South Africa: 1993-1998." New Agenda South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy (2001).
24 Ntuli, Miracle. "Exploring the status of african women in the South African labour market 1995-2004." Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, 2009.
25 Buwembo, Peter. "Factors associated with under-5 mortality in South Africa: Trends 1997- 2002." Masters thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010.
26 Eyal, Katherine, and Ingrid Woolard. Female labour force participation and the child support grant in South Africa. : Researchgate, 2011.
27 De Klerk, Mike, Scott Drimie, Michael Aliber, Simphiwe Mini, Rueben Mokoena, Rendani Randela, Salome Modiselle, Ben Roberts, Coleen Vogel, Cobus De Swardt, and Johan Kirsten. Food security in South Africa: Key policy issues for the medium term. 2004.
28 Posel, Dorrit, and Michael Rogan. "Gendered trends in poverty in the post- apartheid period, 1997–2006." Development Southern Africa 29, no. 1 (2012): 97-113.
29 Edwards, L. "Globalisation and the skills bias of occupational employment in South Africa." South African Journal of Economics 69, no. 1 (2001): 40-71.
30 Meth, Charles. "Half measures: The ANC's unemployment and poverty reduction goals." DPRU Working Paper 04/89 , no. 89 (2004).
31 Pirouz, Farah. "Have labour market outcomes affected household structure in South Africa? A descriptive analysis of households.." DPRU Working Paper , no. 05/100 (2005).
32 Branson, Nicola. "Health and education outcomes for children born to teenage mothers in South Africa." PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007.
33 Keswell, Malcolm, and Laura Poswell. "How important is education for getting ahead in South Africa?." CSSR Working Papers , no. 22 (2002).
34 Tregenna, Fiona. "How significant is intersectoral outsourcing of employment in South Africa?." Industrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 5 (2010): 1427-1457.
35 Kraak, Andre, and Helene Perold. Human resources development review 2003: Education, employment and skills in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2003.
36 Altman, Miriam. "Identifying employment-creating sectors in South Africa: The role of services industries." Development Southern Africa 23, no. 5 (2007): 627-647.
37 Seekings, Jeremy, Murray Leibbrandt, and Nicoli Nattrass. "Income inequality after Apartheid." Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper , no. 75 (2004).
38 Dinkleman, Taryn, and Farah Pirouz. "Individual, household and regional determinants of labour force attachement in South Africa: Evidence from the 1997 October Household Survey." South African Journal of Economics 70, no. 5 (2002): 865-891.
39 Vermeulen C, J. "Inflation and unemployment in South Africa: Is the Phillips curve still dead?." Southern African Business Review (2017).
40 Mettetal, Elizabeth. "Irrigation dams, water and infant mortality: Evidence from South Africa." Journal of Development Economics (2019).
41 Allanson, Paul, and Jonathan Atkins. "Labour market reform and the evolution of the racial wage hierarchy in post-apartheid South Africa." DPRU Working Paper , no. 01/59 (2001).
42 Moyo, Hazvinei T, Mark Zuidgeest, and Hedwig Delden. "Lessons learned from applying an integrated land use transport planning model to address issues of social and economic exclusion of marginalised groups: The case of Cape Town, South Africa." Urban Science 5, no. 1 (2021).
43 Altman, Miriam. Low wage work in South Africa. South Africa: HSRC, 2007.
44 Rospabé, Sandrine. "Making racial wage relations fair in South Africa: A focus on the role of trade unions." DPRU Working Paper , no. 01/48 (2001).
45 Budlender, Debbie, and Ian Macun. Mean and minimum wages in South Africa. Pretoria, South Africa: Statistics South Africa, 2000.
46 Muller, Colette. "Measuring South Africa's informal sector: An analysis of national household surveys." DPRU Working Paper , no. 03/071 (2003).
47 Moses, Eldridge, and Derek Yu. "Migration from the Northern Cape." Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit , no. 32 (2009).
48 Bray, Rachel. "Missing links? An examination of the contributions made by social surveys to our understanding of child well-being in South Africa." CSSR Working Paper , no. 23 (2002).
49 Wittenberg, Martin. "Nonparametric estimation when income is reported in bands and at points." ERSA Working Paper , no. 94 (2008).
50 Ardington, Cally, and Murray Leibbrandt. "Orphanhood and schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005." Economic Development and Cultural Change 58, no. 3 (2010): 507-536.
51 Ardington, Carolyn. "Parental death and schooling outcomes in South Africa." PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008.
52 Budlender, Debbie. "Patterns of poverty in South Africa." Development Southern Africa 16, no. 2 (1999): 197-219.
53 Shepherd, Debra. "Post-apartheid trends in gender discrimination in South Africa: Analysis through decomposition techniques." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 06/08 (2008).
54 Rogan, Michael. "Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2006." Social Indicators Research 113, no. 1 (2013): 491-511.
55 Seekings, Jeremy. "Poverty and inequality after Apartheid." Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper , no. 200 (2007).
56 Branson, Nicola. "Re-weighting the OHS and LFS National Household Survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach." Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit , no. 38 (2009).
57 Samson, Michael, Oliver Babson, Claudia Haarman, Dirk Haarman, Gilbert Khathi, Kenneth Mac Quene, and Ingrid van Niekerk. Research review on social security reform and the basic income grant for South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Economic Policy Research Institute, 2002.
58 Thornton, Amy, and Martin Wittenberg. "Restoring representativeness to South African household survey data with cross-entropy weight recalibration." ESSA Annual Conference . Johannesburg, Gauteng, 09 3, 2019.
59 Keswell, Malcolm, and Laura Poswell. "Returns to education in South Africa: A retrospective sensitivity analysis of the available evidence." South African Journal of Economics 72, no. 4 (2004): 834-860.
60 Burger, Rulof, and Rachel Jafta. "Returns to race: Labour market discrimination in post-apartheid South Africa." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 04/06 (2006).
61 Branson, Nicola, and Martin Wittenberg. "Reweighting South African national household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross-entropy estimation approach." South African Journal of Economics 81, no. 1 (2014): 19-38.
62 Thornton, Amy, and Martin Wittenberg. "Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: representativeness, household counts, and small households." SALDRU Working Paper (2021).
63 Kerr, A, and Martin Wittenberg. "Sampling methodology and field work changes in the october household surveys and labour force surveys." (2013).
64 Devey, Richard, Caroline Skinner, and Imraan Valodia. "Second best? Trends and linkages in the informal economy in South Africa." Development Policy Research Unit , no. 06/102 (2006).
65 Hirschowitz, Ros, Welcome M Sekwati, and Debbie Budlender. South Africa in transition: Selected findings from the October Household Survey of 1999 and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 1999. Pretoria, South Africa: Statistics South Africa, 2001.
66 Barnes, Helen, Michael Noble, Chris Dibben, Charles Meth, Gemma Wright, and Lucie Cluver. "South Africa microdata scoping study." Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy Working Paper No. 6 , no. 6 (2007).
67 Armstrong, Paula, and Janca Steenkamp. "South African Trade Unions: An overview for 1995 to 2005." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 10/08 (2008).
68 Aliber, Michael. Study of the incidence and nature of chronic poverty and development policy in South Africa: An overview. Cape Town , South Africa: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, 2001.
69 Leibbrandt, Murray, Ingrid Woolard, Haley McEwen, and C Koep. "Tackling inequalities in Brazil, India, China and South Africa: The role of labour market and social policies." Better employment to reduce inequality further in South Africa (2010).
70 Richter, Linda M., and Chris Desmond. "Targeting AIDS orphans and child-headed households? A perspective from national surveys in South Africa, 1995 - 2005." AIDS Care 20, no. 9 (2008): 1019-1028.
71 Armstrong, Paula. "Teacher pay in South Africa: How attractive is the teaching profession?." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 04/09 (2009).
72 Posel, Dorrit. "The collection of national household survey data in South Africa (1993-2001): Rendering labour migration invisible." Development Southern Africa 20, no. 3 (2003): 361-368.
73 Yu, Derek. "The comparability of the Statistics South Africa October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 17/07 (2007).
74 Casale, Daniela, and Dorrit Posel. "The continued feminisation of the labour force in South Africa: An analysis of recent data and trends." The South African Journal of Economics 70, no. 1 (2002): 156-184.
75 Koen, Charlton. "The contribution of technikons to human resources development in South Africa." DPRU Working Paper 03/80 , no. 03/80 (2003).
76 Swanepoel, Rene, and David J Stoker. The estimation and presentation of standard errors in a survey report. South Africa: Statistics South Africa, 2000.
77 Woolard, Ingrid, and Murray Leibbrandt. "The evolution and impact of unconditional cash transfers in South Africa." Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Series , no. 51 (2010).
78 Woolard, Ingrid, Kenneth Harttgen, and Stefan Klasen. "The history and impact of social security in South Africa: Experiences and lessons." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 32, no. 4 (2011): 357-380.
79 Lam, D. "The impact of race on earnings and human capital in Brazil, South Africa and the United States." DPRU/FES Conference on Labour Markets and Poverty in South Africa, Johannesburg, November 15-16, 2001. Johannesburg, South Africa, November 16, 2001.
80 Daniels C, Reza. "The income distribution with multiple sources of survey error." PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013.
81 Sharp, Matthew. "The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid." Regional Science and Urban Economics (2021).
82 Hofmeyr, Clare, Nicola Branson, and Murray Leibbrandt. "The matric certificate is still valuable in the labour market." Econ3x3 (2013).
83 Branson, Nicola, and Martin Wittenberg. "The measurement of employment status in South Africa using cohort analysis, 1994-2004.." South African Journal of Economics 75, no. 2 (2007): 313-326.
84 Wittenberg, Martin. "The mystery of South Africa's ghost workers in 1996: Measurement and mismeasurement in the manufacturing census, population census and October Household Surveys." South African Journal of Economics 72, no. 5 (2004): 1003-1022.
85 Essop, Hassan, and Derek Yu. "The South African informal sector (1997 – 2006)." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 03/08 (2008).
86 Branson, Nicola. "The South African labour market 1995-2004: A cohort analysis.." SALDRU Working Paper , no. 06/07 (2006).
87 Yu, Derek. "The South African labour market: 1995 – 2006." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 05/08 (2008).
88 Fedderke, Johannes. "The structure of growth in the South African economy: Factor accumulation and total factor productivity growth 1970-97." South African Journal of Economics 70, no. 4 (2002): 282-299.
89 Eyal, Katherine, and Ingrid Woolard. "Throwing the book at the CSG." Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit , no. 53 (2011).
90 Bhorat, Haroon, Karmen Naidoo, and Derek Yu. "Trade unions in an emerging economy: The case of South Africa." Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Policies and Practices (2014).
91 Abdi, Tahir, and Lawrence Edwards. "Trade, technology and wage inequality in South Africa." DPRU Working Paper 02, no. 60 (2002): 1-31.
92 Surtee, Dr Sabie, and Professor Martin J J Hall. "Transformation: African people in the Western Cape: An overview." DPRU- Working paper 10/141 , no. 10/141 (2010).
93 van der Berg, Servaas, Ronelle Burger, Rulof Burger, Megan Louw, and Derek Yu. "Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition." DPRU Working Paper 06/104 , no. 06/104 (2006).
94 Branson, Nicola, Cally Ardington, and Murray Leibbrandt. "Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa." SALDRU Working Paper Number 98 , no. 98 (2013).
95 Casale, Daniela, Collete Muller, and Dorrit Posel. "Two million net new jobs: A reconsideration of the rise in employment in South Africa, 1995-2003." South African Journal of Economics 72, no. 5 (2004): 978-1002.
96 Nattrass, Nicoli, and Jeremy Seekings. "Two Nations? Race and economic inequality in South Africa today." Daedalus 130, no. 1 (2001): 45-70.
97 Levinsohn, James. "Two policies to alleviate unemployment in South Africa." Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan and NBER (2007).
98 Statistics South Africa. "Unemployment and employment in South Africa." Pretoria, South Africa: Statistics South Africa, 1998.
99 Dinkelman, Taryn, and Farah Pirouz. "Unemployment and labour force participation in South Africa: A focus on the supply-side." Economic Research Southern Africa , no. 28 (2011).
100 Kingdon, Geeta G, and John Knight. "Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast." World Development 2001, no. 15 (2004): 391-408.
101 Powdthavee, Nattavudh. "Unhappiness and crime: Evidence from South Africa." Economica 72, no. 287 (2005): 531-547.
102 Cox, Kevin R, David Hemson, and Alison Todes. "Urbanization in South Africa and the changing character of migrant labour." South African Geographical Journal 86, no. 1 (2004): 7-16.
103 Johnson-Lans, Shirley, and Patricia Jones. "Wage inequality in Africa." Foreign direct investment and racial wage Inequality: Evidence from South Africa (2017).
104 Burger, Rulof, and Derek Yu. "Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from Household Survey data." Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers , no. 10/06 (2006).
105 Wittenberg, Martin. "Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994–2011: Part 2 – Inequality measurement and trends." South African Journal of Economics (2016).
106 Posel, Dorrit, and Daniela Casale. "What has been happening to internal labour migration in South Africa, 1993-1999?." South African Journal of Economics 71, no. 3 (2003): 455-479.
107 Casale, Daniela. "What has the feminisation of the labour market ‘bought’ women in South Africa? Trends in labour force participation, employment and earnings, 1995-2001." DPRU Working Paper , no. 04/84 (2004).
108 Kingdon, Geeta, and John Knight. "What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa?." Social Dynamics 27, no. 1 (2001): 79-95.
109 Banerjee, Abhijit, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, and Ingrid Woolard. "Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa?." International Policy Center Working Paper Series , no. 35 (2006).
110 Banerjee, Abhijit, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, and Ingrid Woolard. "Why has unemployment risen in the New South Africa?." Economics of Transition 16, no. 4 (2008): 715-740.
111 Abel, Martin, Megan Blair, Raissa Fabregas, Kamilla Gumede, and Murray Leibbrandt. "Youth and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working but poor." South Africa (2014).