The Evolution of the Racial Wage Hierarchy in Post- Apartheid South Africa

Did the End of Apartheid Spell the Beginning of the End for the Racial Wage Hierarchy in South Africa? a Multilateral Analysis of Racial Wage Differentials in the Early Post-apartheid Period

The South African apartheid system formally ended with the election of the African National Congress at the first all-race elections held in 1994. As a result, racist policies such as color barring, that particularly hindered the advancement of black workers throughout the apartheid period are no longer legal. Yet the legacy of apartheid may endure as a result of both the persistence of racial ...

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

The central theme of this 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. We find that the transition to democratic rule in 1994 was accompanied by an improvement in the wage position of the majority African workforce r...

Racial Categories as Resources and Constraints in Everyday Interactions: Implications for Racialism and Non-Racialism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Trends in the gender wage gap and gender discrimination among part-time and full-time workers in post-apartheid South Africa

Using nationally representative household survey data from 1995 to 2006, this paper explores the gender wage gap among part-time and full-time salaried workers in post-apartheid South Africa, considering speci…cally how the magnitude of the gender-wage gap and the factors contributing to this gap have changed over time. The results, which are robust to the imputation of values for missing earni...

State , Myth , and Agency in the Construction of Chinese South African Identities , 1948 - 1994

Based on the author’s PhD research, this article focuses on the fluid and contested nature of the identities – racial, ethnic, and national – of people of Chinese descent in South Africa in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The research focused on the approximately 12,000-strong community of second-, third-, and fourth-generation South African-born Chinese South Africans. It uncovered that...