Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality
Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality
South Africa is a particularly valuable case study for understanding inequality and racial discrimination. The case of South Africa illustrates how labour-market, welfare, education, and economic policies combined to shape the patterns and levels of income inequality. In this chapter, the ways in which state policies affect income inequality are described. It introduces the “distributional regime” concept, which describes how the apartheid and post-apartheid states intervened in state policies that affect the level and distribution of income in South Africa.
Keywords: South Africa, inequality, racial discrimination, labour-market, welfare, education, economic policies, income inequality, distributional regime, apartheid
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