Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103003 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/113
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show that these gaps are largely associated with the former groups having an accumulation of disadvantages in location, demographic structure, education, and labour market outcomes. The analysis of the evolution that occurred after the end of apartheid shows that the gap might have increased, especially in the case of the Zulu.
Subjects: 
poverty
ethnicity
South Africa
Xhosa
Zulu
Sotho/Tswana
JEL: 
D31
I32
J15
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-834-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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