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 The Economics of Language
Informal Land Markets and Labour Migration
Gender and Poverty in South Africa
Marriage Markets in South Africa
Housewives and Housework
Mothers and Motherhood in South Africa
Household Composition and Economic Well-being
Segmentation and Unionisation in the South African Labour Market
Biographical sketch: Professor Dori Posel holds an NRF Research Chair (SARChI) in Economic Development in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her areas of specialisation include migration, labour, household behaviour, and household survey design and analysis. She has published widely on research relating to labour migration and remittance behaviour; changes in labour force participation and employment; the determinants of earnings; and intrahousehold allocation. Dori holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). She has been the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships, including the Vice-Chancellors Research Award in 2005. Publications: Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2010) The male marital earnings premium in the context of bride wealth payments: Evidence from South Africa. Economic Development and Cultural Change 58(2): 211 - 230. Posel, D. (2009) Households and migration: A comparison of measures across the National Income Dynamics Study and other household surveys in South Africa. Report prepared for the National Income Dynamics Study. Posel, D. and Rogan, M. (2009) Gender trends in poverty rates in South Africa, 1997– 2006, presented at the Economic Society of South Africa Conference (September 2009, Port Elizabeth). Posel, D. and Casale, D. (2009) Sex ratios and racial differences in marriage rates, presented at the IAFFE Conference (June 2009, Boston) and the Economic Society of South Africa Conference (September 2009, Port Elizabeth). Posel, D and Rogan, M (2009) Women, income and poverty: Gendered access to resources in post-apartheid South Africa. Agenda, 81: 25-34. Posel, D. and Muller, C. (2008) "Is there evidence of a wage penalty to female part-time employment in South Africa?" South African Journal of Economics 76(3): 466-479. Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2008) Unions and the gender wage gap in South Africa. Paper presented at the Annual African Econometrics Society Conference, Pretoria and at the Development Policy Research Unit Conferences (Muldersdrift). Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2008) Unions and the gender wage gap in South Africa. ERSA Working Paper 113. Heintz, J and Posel, D (2008) Revisiting informal employment and segmentation in the South African labour market. South African Journal of Economics, 76(1), 26 - 44. Posel, D. and Muller, C. (2008) Is there evidence of a wage penalty to female part-time employment in Posel, D. and Van der Stoep, G. (2008) Co-resident and absent mothers: Mothers and labour force participation in South Africa. Paper presented at the Annual African Econometrics Society Conference, Pretoria, and at the Conference on Income Distribution and the Family, Kiel (Germany). Dias, R. and Posel, D. (2007) Unemployment, education and skills constraints in post-apartheid South Africa. DPRU Working Paper, no. 120 Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2007) Estimating the marital earnings premium to African men in South Africa, presented at the African Econometrics Society Conference (July 2007, Cape Town) and at the Economic Society of South Africa Conference (September 2007, Gauteng). Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2007) The male marital earnings premium in the context of bridewealth payments. ERSA Working Paper 57. Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2006) A review of the labour market in KwaZulu-Natal, 1995-2003. Report prepared for the Department of Economic Development, KwaZulu-Natal. Casale, D., Muller, C. and Posel, D. (2006) Working hours in South Africa. South African Labour Bulletin, 30(2): 38-40. Posel, D. and Devey, R. (2006) The Demographics of fatherhood in South Africa: an analysis of survey data, 1993-2002. In: Baba: men and fatherhood in South Africa, Cape Town: HSRC Press. Posel D., Fairburn J.A. and Lund F. (2006). Labour migration and households: A reconsideration of the effects of the social pension on labour supply in South Africa. Economic Modelling, 23(5), 836-853. Posel, D. (2006) Moving on. Patterns of labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Tienda, M., Tollman, S. and Preston-Whyte, E. (eds) African migration and urbanisation in comparative perspective, Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press, 217-231 Posel, D. and Casale, D. (2006) Internal migration and household poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Kanbur, R. and Bhorat, H. (eds) Poverty and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Pretoria: HSRC Press, 351-365. Bowles, S. and Posel, D. (2005) Genetic relatedness predicts South African migrant workers remittances to their families. Nature, 434, 380-383. Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2005) Women and the economy: How far have we come? Agenda, 64, 21-29. Posel, D. and Casale, D. (2005) Who replies in brackets and what are the implications? An analysis of earnings data in South Africa. ERSA Working Paper, no. 7. Casale, D., Muller, C. and Posel, D. (2004) Two million net new jobs? A reconsideration of the rise in employment in South Africa, 1995-2003. South African Journal of Economics, 72(5), 978-1002. Muller, C. and Posel, D. (2004) Concerns with measuring informal sector employment: An analysis of national household surveys in South Africa, 1993-2001. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 28(1), 1-20. Posel, D. (2004) Have migration patterns in post-apartheid South Africa changed? Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 15, 277-292. Morrell, R.G., Posel, D.R. and Devey, R.M. (2003) Counting Fathers in South Africa: Issues of Definition, Methodology and Policy. Social Dynamics, 29 (2): 73 - 94. Posel, D. (2003) The collection of national household survey data in South Africa: Rendering labour migration invisible. Development Southern Africa, 20(3), 361-368. Posel, D. and Casale, D. (2003) What has been happening to internal labour migration in South Africa, 1993-1999? South African Journal of Economics, 71(3), 455-479. Casale, D. and Posel, D. (2002) The feminisation of the labour force in South Africa: An analysis of recent data and trends. South African Journal of Economics, 70(1), 156-184. Posel, D. (2001) How do households work? Migration, the household and remittance behaviour in South Africa. Social Dynamics, 27(1), 165-189. Posel, D. (2001) Who are the heads of household, what do they do and is the concept of headship useful? An analysis of headship data in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 18(5), 651-670. Posel, D. (2001) Intra-family transfers and income-pooling: A study of remittance transfers in KwaZulu-Natal. South African Journal of Economics, 69(3), 501-528. Posel, D. (2001) Women wait, men migrate. Gender inequality and migration decisions in South Africa. In: Webb, P. and Weinberger, K. (eds) Women farmers: Enhancing rights, recognition and productivity. Development Economics and Policy Series, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 91-117. Posel, D. and Casale, D. (2001) Gender aggregates: Women subsistence farmers affect the unemployment count. Agenda, 49, 82-88. Posel, D. (1997) Counting the poor. Who gets what in which households? Agenda, 33, 49-61. Posel, D. and Todes, A. (1995) The shift to female labour in KwaZulu-Natal. South African Journal of Economics, 63(2), 225-246. Todes, A. and Posel, D. (1995) What has happened to gender in regional development analysis? Examples from KwaZulu-Natal. Transformation, 25, 58-78. Research Methods II
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