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Jacqueline Mosomi

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU, UCT), South Africa

My colleagues and i have often benefited from the IZA world labor articles when looking for quick digestible information on a range of topics related to labor policy. It is therefore a great pleasure to be part of this project

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Author

Current position

Post-doctoral fellow at South African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU, UCT), South Africa

Research interest

Labor economics, gender pay gap, unemployment, incomplete education

Website

https://aceir.uct.ac.za/contacts/jacqueline-mosomi/full?subsite=1639

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Selected publications

  • "An empirical analysis of trends in female labour force participation and the gender wage gap in South Africa." Agenda 33:64 (2019): 1–15. 

  • Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in the Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market. WIDER Working Paper No. 17, 2019.

  • "An empirical analysis of trends in female labour force participation and the gender wage gap in South Africa." Agenda 33:4 (2019): 29–43.

article(s)

  • The labor market in South Africa, 2000–2017

    The legacy of apartheid and demand for skills have resulted in high, persistent inequality and high unemployment

    Jacqueline MosomiMartin Wittenberg, April 2020
    The South African economy was on a positive growth trajectory from 2003 to 2008 but, like other economies around the world, it was not spared from the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis. The economy has not recovered and employment in South Africa has not yet returned to its pre-crisis levels. Overall inequality has not declined, and median wages seem to have stagnated in the post-apartheid period. Labor force participation has been stable and although progress has been made, gender imbalances persist.
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