| Hofmeyr (1994a) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR, UNISA) household income and expenditure surveys of urban Africans, 1975 and 1985 (1980 omitted) |
1975, 1985 (1980 survey omitted) |
Raw household survey microdata, restricted to employed Africans aged 16-65, underpin the semilog human-capital wage regressions and the decomposition of wage change. |
| Hofmeyr (1994b) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR, UNISA) household surveys of urban Africans, 1975 and 1985 (1980 survey omitted) |
1975, 1980, 1985 (1975 and 1985 analysed) |
Raw microdata are the basis for the wage regressions and the decomposition of wage growth by structure and characteristics. |
| Hofmeyr and Lucas (1998) |
1985 income and expenditure survey, Bureau of Market Research (BMR), University of South Africa |
1985 |
Supplies earnings, employment status and union membership (via dues paid) for urban African males in 1985; the baseline sample for estimating union premia. |
| Horrell (1968) |
Bureau of Market Research (UNISA) household income studies: Pretoria 1960-65; Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage |
1960-1965 |
Supplies African and Coloured household incomes and budgets. |
| Horrell et al. (1972) |
University of South Africa Bureau of Market Research survey of 410 African households in Pretoria area (1970) |
second half of 1970 |
Gives average household income and size of African households. |
| McGrath and Simkins (1985) |
BMR 1978, Income and Expenditure Patterns of Black Households in Venda, Report No. 64 (Table 3.1) |
1977 |
Shows remittances vary across districts and are negatively correlated with wages, contradicting Simkins's independence assumption. |
| McGrath and Simkins (1985) |
BMR 1980, Income and Expenditure Patterns of Black Households in Kangwane 1978, Research Report No. 82 (Table C1) |
1978 |
Used to show remittances negatively correlated with wages in three of four districts. |
| McGrath and Simkins (1985) |
BMR homeland income distribution (Simkins's comparison distribution for 1980) |
1980 |
Benchmark against which the simulated 1980 distribution is compared via chi-squared test and Lorenz curves. |
| McGrath and Simkins (1985) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR) income survey data, incl. 1976 Pietermaritzburg report (Report No. 50.12, Table 12m) |
1976 |
Illustrates wide variation in earnings by occupation, undermining Simkins's assumption that all people with a given income type earn the same. |
| Moll (1993a) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR) 1985 household surveys of urban black households (incl. Income and Expenditure Patterns of Urban Black Multiple Households in Johannesburg, 1985, Research Report 130.9) |
1985 |
Main microdata for probit of union membership and for union/nonunion wage regressions of black blue-collar workers (N=4,963), and for black union density by sector. |
| Moll (1993b) |
BMR unionization rate data for urban Africans (1975, 1980) and surveys 1984-1987 for homelands |
1975-1987 |
Establishes that African unionization was negligible (2.6% in 1975, 5.5% in 1980) and near zero in the homelands, justifying them as non-union samples. |
| Moll (1993b) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR) household surveys of urban Africans, 1975, 1980, 1985 |
1975, 1980, 1985 |
Test of the union threat model: industry differentials in the non-union African sector in 1975 (and 1980, 1985), with sample sizes of 3,984, 3,294 and 3,558. |
| Moll (1993c) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR, UNISA) 1985 household survey of urban black households (data set; BMR Research Report 130.9 on Johannesburg/Soweto) |
1985 |
Provides the microdata (N=4,963 black full-time blue-collar workers) for the union membership probits, wage equations, and union-nonunion differentials for black workers. |
| Moll (1996b) |
Bureau of Market Research (BMR) household surveys 1975 and 1985 |
1975, 1985 |
Microdata for earnings regressions yielding the African primary effect of 0.025 in 1975 and 0.027 in 1985 and the comparisons across races. |
| Moll (1996b) |
Published grouped BMR data 1965-1975 (BMR Research Reports 1965-1978) |
1965-1975 |
Grouped data used in weighted least squares spline regressions to extend the series back to 1965 and show that African primary returns were already low. |