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dc.contributor.authorWoolard, Ingriden
dc.contributor.authorKlasen, Stephanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:12:50Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:12:50Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20265-
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in SouthAfrica?s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared toindustrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might havebeen expected after the transition in South Africa. This finding is robust when measurementerror is controlled for. When disaggregating the sources of mobility, we find that demographicchanges and employment changes account for a most of the mobility observed which isrelated to rapidly shifting household boundaries and a very volatile labour market in anenvironment of high unemployment. Using a multivariate analysis, we see that transitoryincomes play a large role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with largeinitial household size, poor initial education, poor initial asset endowment and poor initialemployment access that dominate the otherwise observed regression towards to the mean.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1030en
dc.subject.jelJ6en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelD63en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmobilityen
dc.subject.keywordpovertyen
dc.subject.keywordSouth Africaen
dc.subject.keywordhousehold structureen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Mobilitäten
dc.subject.stwEinkommenen
dc.subject.stwArmuten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwSüdafrikaen
dc.titleDeterminants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn379576139en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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