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Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa
This paper constructs an Inequality of Opportunities framework for South Africa and seeks to establish whether earnings inequality therein has been driven by differing circumstances or variations in efforts. The analysis has been performed on a 2008 cross-sectional South African dataset, proxying fo...
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| author | Little, Megan |
| author2 | Leibbrandt, Murray |
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| description | This paper constructs an Inequality of Opportunities framework for South Africa and seeks to establish whether earnings inequality therein has been driven by differing circumstances or variations in efforts. The analysis has been performed on a 2008 cross-sectional South African dataset, proxying for circumstances using years of parental education and for efforts using an individual's own education in years. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10965 Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa Little, Megan Leibbrandt, Murray Economics This paper constructs an Inequality of Opportunities framework for South Africa and seeks to establish whether earnings inequality therein has been driven by differing circumstances or variations in efforts. The analysis has been performed on a 2008 cross-sectional South African dataset, proxying for circumstances using years of parental education and for efforts using an individual's own education in years. 2015-01-02T09:05:48Z 2015-01-02T09:05:48Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MScoSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10965 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Little, Megan Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| title_full | Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| title_short | Exploring the inequality of opportunities in South Africa |
| title_sort | exploring the inequality of opportunities in south africa |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10965 |
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