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Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes

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  • Biniam E. Bedasso
  • Nonso Obikili

Abstract

Inequality is a problem which has beset South Africa for a long time with the country being on record as having one of the highest levels of inequality in the world. However, little is known about horizontal inequality between different groups in South Africa. Given the level of racial and ethnic diversity in South Africa, […]

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  • Biniam E. Bedasso & Nonso Obikili, 2017. "Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes," Working Papers 124, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    1. Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, 2017. "Impact of Internal In-Migration on Income Inequality in Receiving Areas: A District Level Study of South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(12), pages 2145-2163, December.
    2. Carlos Gradín, 2021. "Occupational Gender Segregation in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 102-133, July.
    3. Mattie Susan Landman & Neave O'Clery, 2020. "The impact of the Employment Equity Act on female inter-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-52, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Umakrishnan Kollamparambil & Aarifah Razak, 2016. "Trends in Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination in South Africa: A Comparative Analysis across Races," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 10(1), pages 49-63, April.
    5. Jacqueline Mosomi, 2019. "Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-17, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    6. Sirisha C. Naidu & Lyn Ossome, 2018. "Work, Gender, and Immiseration in South Africa and India," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(2), pages 332-348, June.
    7. Haroon Bhorat & Sumayya Goga, 2012. "The Gender Wage Gap in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market," Working Papers 12148, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
    8. Oyenubi, Adeola & Mosomi, Jacqueline, 2024. "Utility of inequality sensitive measures of the gender wage gap: Evidence from South Africa," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 576-590.
    9. Amina Ebrahim & Kezia Lilenstein, 2019. "Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax data," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-31, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    10. Carlos Gradín, 2018. "Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series 53, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    11. Caro Janse van Rensburg & Carli Bezuidenhout & Marianne Matthee & Victor Stolzenburg, 2020. "Globalization and gender inequality: Evidence from South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-97, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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    Keywords

    capital - human; inequality; South Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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