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Baylis, Katherine R. Kay, David D. 2011-05-25T15:02:36Z 2011-05-25T15:02:36Z 2011-05-25T15:02:36Z 2011-05 Over the last several decades several theories have dominated debates about the nature of informal employment in developing countries. The dualistic theory claims that the informal sector is a substitute for formal employment, the alternative theory claims that the informal sector is a compliment to formal employment, and the structural articulation theory claims that informal employment is both a substitute for and compliment to formal sector employment because heterogeneous groups exist within the informal sector. This study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence that heterogeneous sub-sectors do exist within South Africa’s informal sector, and that the Structural Articulation theory, with its focus on dynamic and static sub-sectors, is the most appropriate framework to adopt when thinking about informal employment in South Africa . Furthermore, the study also adds to the literature by providing evidence that a national poverty line can be used to identify the dynamic and static sub-groupings within South Africa’s informal sector. Finally, I suggest that the existence of heterogeneous sub-groupings implies the need to better target policy interventions for the informal sector. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-04-18T18:04:09Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kay_David.pdf: 2766135 bytes, checksum: 6676b10ae08b36667a276e0f39355ab7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T15:02:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Kay_David.pdf: 2766947 bytes, checksum: 060b541572a6c79209f3e6dd92687b8c (MD5) license.txt: 4055 bytes, checksum: 13cb7f336119a26855be2845551b512d (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24306 en Copyright 2011 David D. Kay employment unemployment formal employment informal employment South Africa developing country poverty The relationship between formal and informal employment in South Africa 5273 Agr & Consumer Economics 1470 Agricultural & Applied Econ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS: Agr & Applied Econ - UIUC 10KS5273MS