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Title: | Revisiting informal employment and segmentation in the South African labour market |
Authors: | Heintz, James Posel, Dorrit |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 76 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 26-44 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | employment informal sector labour market |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00153.x/pdf |
Abstract: | This study revisits the definition of informal employment, and it investigates the puzzle of high open unemployment co-existing with relatively limited informal employment in South Africa. It estimates earnings equations using data from the September 2004 Labour Force Survey and present evidence of persistent earnings differentials not only between formal and informal employment, but also between types of informal employment. These persistent earnings differentials are suggestive of complex segmentation in the South African labour market and challenge the presentation of informal employment as an undifferentiated residual with no barriers to entry or mobility. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |