Trends in the working poverty rate (WPR) in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2012

Rogan, Michael; Reynolds, John

Title: Trends in the working poverty rate (WPR) in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2012
Creator: Rogan, Michael
Creator: Reynolds, John
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478117
Identifier: vital:78156
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1590181
Description: As South Africa prepares to implement a national minimum wage for the first time, a number of questions about the potential benefits of a minimum wage have emerged. However, most of the South African literature, to date, has been concerned with the country's high unemployment rate and not on the quality of employment. In particular, there has been very little attention given to one widely used indicator of decent work, the working poverty rate (WPR). Using the October and General Household Surveys, we present an analysis of trends in working poverty over most of the post-apartheid period (from 1997 to 2012). The findings reveal that, while income poverty has decreased, poverty among the employed is a persistent feature of the post-apartheid period and that the contributions of earnings from employment to overall poverty reduction have been disappointing.
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Development Southern Africa
Relation: Rogan, M. and Reynolds, J., 2019. Trends in the working poverty rate (WPR) in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2012. Development Southern Africa, 36(5), pp.699-715
Relation: Development Southern Africa volume 36 number 5 699 715 2019 1470-3637
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