Dr Timothy Hinks' Outputs (30)

Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa (2008)
Journal Article

Previous work into the decision to search or not for work when unemployed has found that local unemployment rates, education level and social networks are important in the case of South Africa. This paper introduces a number of additional variables i... Read More about Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa.

Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing (2008)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants
Preprint / Working Paper

Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional data set of Romanian emigrants to find which... Read More about Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants.