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Title:Revisiting informal employment and segmentation in the South African labour market
Authors:Heintz, JamesISNI
Posel, DorritISNI
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]
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