abstract: 'There has been very little detailed exploration of the relationship

  between wage income and household inequality in South Africa despite the

  relevance of this issue for many contemporary growth and development

  policy debates. This article is directed at such an analysis. It uses a

  decomposition of household income inequality by income components to

  highlight the dominance of wage income in driving overall income

  inequality. This is followed by a derailed discussion of the

  distribution of the unemployed across different wage-earning household

  categories. Many of the unemployed are seen to depend on wage earners

  within their households, but a significant percentage of the unemployed,

  especially in rural areas, have no direct link to labor market earners.

  In such cases, the creation of employment is essential. The conclusion

  explores policy implications by linking our empirical findings to South

  African debates over the quality versus the quantity of employment. (JEL

  D31, J68, O55).'
affiliation: 'Leibbrandt, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Cape Town, Sch Econ, ZA-7700
  Rondebosch, South Africa.

  Univ Cape Town, Sch Econ, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa.

  Univ Cape Town, Dev Policy Res Unit, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa.

  Univ Port Elizabeth, Dept Econ, ZA-6000 Port Elizabeth, South Africa.'
author: Leibbrandt, M and Bhorat, H and Woolard, I
author-email: 'murray@humanities.uct.ac.za

  bhorat@hiddingh.uct.ac.za

  ecaidw@upe.ac.za'
author_list:
- family: Leibbrandt
  given: M
- family: Bhorat
  given: H
- family: Woolard
  given: I
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/cep/19.1.73
eissn: 1465-7287
files: []
issn: 1074-3529
journal: CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY
keywords-plus: INCOME COMPONENTS
language: English
month: JAN
note: '73rd Annual Meeting of the Western-Economic-Association-International,

  LAKE TAHOE, NV, JUN 28-JUL 02, 1998'
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '29'
orcid-numbers: 'Leibbrandt, Murray/0000-0003-0829-8844

  Woolard, Ingrid/0000-0003-4013-5797'
pages: 73-86
papis_id: ae820d0312f29f1bae3d3c2c971825a3
ref: Leibbrandt2001householdinequality
researcherid-numbers: 'Leibbrandt, Murray/E-1645-2018

  '
times-cited: '7'
title: Household inequality and the labor market in South Africa
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000166534500008
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '19'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Public Administration
year: '2001'