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Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing (2008)
Book Chapter
Hinks, T. (2008). Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing. In J. Copestake (Ed.), Wellbeing and Development in Peru: Local and Universal Views Confronted. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Development is something we all aspire to, but also readily criticize for failing to live up to our hopes of sustained improvement in human wellbeing. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and w... Read More about Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing.

The racial employment gap in South Africa (2004)
Journal Article
Brookes, M., & Hinks, T. (2004). The racial employment gap in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 72(3), 573-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2004.tb00126.x

The aim of this paper was to estimate whether the probability of an employment gap between White and African, and Coloured and Asian labour force participants had changed between 1995 and 2002. For each of the four years the expected racial employmen... Read More about The racial employment gap in South Africa.

Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the New South Africa (2002)
Journal Article
Hinks, T. (2002). Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the New South Africa. Applied Economics, 34(16), 2043-2052. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840210124991

Research into discrimination within South Africa (SA) has focused on racial issues, with gender issues being largely ignored. This study aims to estimate gender wage differentials and through decomposition analysis understand the different problems f... Read More about Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the New South Africa.

No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa? (2002)
Journal Article
Allanson, P., Atkins, J. P., & Hinks, T. (2002). No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa?. Review of Development Economics, 6(3), 442-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9361.t01-1-00166

The South African apartheid system formally ended with the election of the African National Congress at the first all-race elections held in 1994. As a result, racist policies such as color barring, that particularly hindered the advancement of black... Read More about No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa?.

Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom (2001)
Journal Article
Brookes, M., Hinks, T., & Watson, D. (2001). Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom. LABOUR, 15(3), 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9914.00170

Due to the lack of consistent data, direct and robust comparisons of cross-country labour markets have been virtually impossible. This study uses a new panel data series that controls for inconsistencies, thus overcoming this problem. This study esti... Read More about Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom.

A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination (2001)
Journal Article
Hinks, T., & Watson, D. (2001). A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination. Applied Economics, 33(5), 605-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840122869

This paper combines a technique to measure nondiscriminatory wage structures with a multinomial logit model to estimate both occupational racial discrimination and within-occupation racial wage underpayment and overpayment. Using a recent South Afric... Read More about A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination.

German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination (2001)
Journal Article
Dawson, P., Hinks, T., & Watson, D. (2001). German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, 70(1), 107-114. https://doi.org/10.3790/vjh.70.1.107

Using stochastic panel wage frontiers, this paper estimates the relative underpayment of females and males in the reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher underpayment and th... Read More about German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination.

A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market (2000)
Journal Article
Allanson, P., Atkins, J. P., & Hinks, T. (2000). A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market. Journal of Development Studies, 37(1), 93-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/713600060

This article develops a new multilateral decomposition procedure for the analysis of wage differentials and applies this to the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market. Using micro-data on male workers from the 1994 October Household... Read More about A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market.