Returns to Race: Labour Market Discrimination in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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growth; Discrimination; South Africa;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2006-05-06 (Africa)
- NEP-LAB-2006-05-06 (Labour Economics)
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- Servaas van der Berg, 2006. "How effective are poor schools? Poverty and educational outcomes in South Africa," Working Papers 06/2006, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.