Minimum wage violation in South Africa

Forecasting the Effects of Pending Minimum Wage Legislation on Poverty in South Africa

Pharmacovigilance in India, Uganda and South Africa with Reference to WHO’s Minimum Requirements

Background Pharmacovigilance (PV) data are crucial for ensuring safety and effectiveness of medicines after drugs have been granted marketing approval. This paper describes the PV systems of India, Uganda and South Africa based on literature and Key Informant (KI) interviews and compares them with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) minimum PV requirements for a Functional National PV Syste...

Wage Effects of Unions and Industrial Councils in South Africa

Some argue that a high union wage premium and the industrial council system are important causes of inflexibility in the South African labor market. We estimate union premia on the order of 20 percent for African workers and 10 percent for White workers. We also find that African nonunion workers who are covered by industrial council agreements receive a premium of 6-10 percent; the premium is ...

Unions and the Gender Wage Gap in South Africa

Studies of the wage effects of unions in South Africa have been largely concerned with the impact of union membership on the wages of African and White male workers. Consistent with findings in the international literature, these studies have concluded that unions compress the distribution of wages in South Africa, and, more specifically, that racial inequality is lower in the union sector comp...

The Productivity -Wage Relationship in South Africa: An Empirical Investigation

and Professor Murray Leibbrandt from the University of Cape Town. I thank them for their input but take sole responsibility for this paper and any errors it may contain. I would also like to thank TIPS for providing financial support for this research.