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Persistent Inequality: Space,
Education and the Labour Market
Murray Leibbrandt
Exploring the relationship between
spatial inequality and
attitudes to inequality in South Africa
Government Cluster Policy Workshop
10 September 2013
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Returns to schooling, African and white men age 25-59
South Africa OHS/LFS
White males 2007
Returns to post-secondary
schooling are very high and have
increased over time.
2.5
White males 1997
African males 2007
0
.5
1
1.5
2
African males 1997
-1
-.5
Men with university have earnings
about 3 times the earnings of men
with grade 12.
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Years of completed schooling
NIDS Wave 2: Education
• Most individuals have access to a school within 1km
of their household
• Majority of learners attend a school within a 2km
radius of their household
• For respondents who choose schools that are not the
closest one:
– They pick schools in higher quintiles
– Hence less likely to be no-fee schools
– And choose schools with lower pupil to teacher ratios
• Respondents in richer households least likely to
attend closest school
Spending on School by Quintiles
Residential change between waves 1 & 2
Race
Gender
Age group
0-5 (omitted)
13-17
18-25
26-59
>60
Log(income)
Constant
Observations
-0.0345***
0.0406***
-0.00963
-0.0862***
-0.0347***
0.0333***
-0.0230***
-0.0969***
0.118***
22,013
0.0118***
0.0672***
21,991
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
Educational and labour market
transitions for movers aged 13-17 at
wave 2
W2 Current Status
W1 Current
Status
In school
Other
Total
In school
Unemployed
Employed
Other
Total
%
%
%
%
%/#
82.4
2.5
1.1
14.1
95.3
67.3
0
0
32.7
4.7
81.7
2.3
1
15
100
Post-secondary enrollment within two
years of completing grade 12
University only
University or University of Technology
Any Post Secondary
83%
65%
53%
46%
44%
30%
30%
19%
13%
African
Coloured
White
Income, Matric performance and
Access to Tertiary Education