Arbeitspapier
The impact of affirmative action on the gendered: Occupational segregation in South Africa
This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We estimate the effects of the Employment Equity Act of 1998, the Black Economic Empowerment Act in 2003 and the Codes of Good Conduct in 2007 on (Black) female employment in top occupations using individual level, repeated cross-section data of 21 years. The findings based on difference-in-difference-in-difference identification strategy show that the probability of Black female employment in top occupations increased after 2003, however it decreased after 2007. Overall, the effects are quite small. We offer several explanations for our findings.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 236
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
- Subject
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affirmative action
occupational segregation
gender
South Africa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Klasen, Stephan
Minasyan, Anna
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
- (where)
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Göttingen
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Klasen, Stephan
- Minasyan, Anna
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
Time of origin
- 2018
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