Labour Market Reform and the Evolution of the Racial Wage Hierarchy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Allanson, Paul; Atkins, Jonathan

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Labour Market Reform and the Evolution of the Racial Wage Hierarchy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Authors: Paul Allanson
Jonathan Atkins
Publication date: 1 January 2001
Publisher: University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract

The central theme of this working paper is the way that the racial wage hierarchy evolved in South Africa over the period 1993 to 1999 amongst full-time regular employees of normal working age, but excluding those in the primary sector and the defence forces