Working papers
2019
Kerr, Andrew and Wittenberg, Martin Earnings and Employment Microdata in South Africa, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2019/47.
Nthatisi, Motshidisi and Wittenberg, Martin Changes in South African well-being between 2008/9 and 2014/15: The evidence from expenditure and asset data, SALDRU Working Paper 252.
Wittenberg, Martin and Kerr, Andrew Wage determination in South Africa: The case of the union wage premium since the end of apartheid, REDI3x3 working paper 56.
2017
Wittenberg, Martin, The top tail of South Africa's earnings distribution, 1993-2014: Evidence from the Pareto distribution, REDI3x3 working paper 46.
Kerr, Andrew and Wittenberg, Martin Public sector wages and employment in South Africa, REDI3x3 working paper 42.
Wittenberg, Martin, Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data, REDI3x3 working paper 41.
Econ3x3 blog post based on this paper: Are we measuring poverty and inequality correctly? Comparing earnings using tax and survey data
Machemedze, Takwanisa; Dinkelman, Taryn; Collinson, Mark; Twine, Wayne and Wittenberg, Martin, Throwing light on rural development: Using nightlight data to map rural electrification in South Africa DataFirst Technical Paper 38.
Inaugural Lecture
Although the lecture was delivered in 2012, the text was not readily available. (The video is available via YouTube.) It was reissued with a short preface:
Wittenberg, Martin Economics and Transformation: Measurement, Models, Maths and Myths SALDRU working paper 211.
2016
Harris, Tom; Collinson, Mark and Wittenberg, Martin, Aiming for a moving target: the dynamics of household electricity access in a developing context, SALDRU working paper 195.
Neyens, Liz and Wittenberg, Martin,Changes in self-employment in the agricultural sector, South Africa: 1994-2012, SALDRU working paper 172.
2015
Shifa, Muna; Leibbrandt, Murray and Wittenberg, Martin,Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia? SALDRU working paper 150.
Wittenberg, Martin and Leibbrandt, Murray, Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A general approach with application to South Africa; SALDRU working paper 141.
Wittenberg, Martin, Wages in post-Apartheid South Africa. Focus: Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation, No 75, pp.27-32.
2014
Wittenberg, Martin,Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data, SALDRU working paper 135.
Wittenberg, Martin, Union selection effects - Some inconsistent models,SALDRU working paper 133.
Wittenberg, Martin, Analysis of employment, real wage, and productivity trends in South Africa since 1994, ILO - Conditions of Work and Employment Series No 45, Geneva: International Labour Office.
Machemedze, Takwanisa, Kerr, Andrew and Wittenberg, Martin, Recalibrating the OHSs to adjust for sampling changes, DataFirst Technical Paper 28.
Wittenberg, Martin and Collinson, Mark, Household formation and household size in post-apartheid South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt sub-district, 1992-2003, DataFirst Technical Paper 27.
2013
Wittenberg, Martin,Non-monetary dimensions of well-being: A comment, SALDRU working paper 110.
Wittenberg, Martin and Pirouz, Farah, The measurement of earnings in the post-Apartheid period: An overview, SALDRU working paper 108.
Kerr, Andrew and Wittenberg, Martin, Sampling methodology and field work changes in the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys, SALDRU working paper 101.
Kerr, Andrew, Wittenberg, Martin and Arrow, Jairo, Job creation and destruction in South Africa, SALDRU working paper 92.
Wittenberg, Martin, A comment on the use of ‘cluster’ corrections in the context of panel data, NIDS Technical Paper No. 6.
2011
Wittenberg, Martin, The weight of success: The body mass index and economic well-being in South Africa, SALDRU working paper 65.
Branson, Nicola and Wittenberg, Martin, Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach, SALDRU working paper 54.
2009
Wittenberg, Martin,Sample survey calibration: An information theoretic perspective, SALDRU working paper 41.
Wittenberg, Martin, Weighing the value of asset proxies: The case of the body mass index in South Africa, SALDRU working paper 39.
Wittenberg, Martin, Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies, SALDRU working paper 29.
Wittenberg, Martin, Lazy rotten sons? Relatedness, gender and the intra-household allocation of work and leisure in South Africa, SALDRU working paper 28.
Wittenberg, Martin, Weights: Report on NIDS wave 1, NIDS Technical Paper No. 2.
2008
Wittenberg, Martin, October Household Survey 1994, DataFirst Technical Paper 9.
Wittenberg, Martin, Income in the October Household Survey 1994, DataFirst Technical Paper 7.
Wittenberg, Martin, Nonparametric estimation when income is reported in bands and at points, Working Papers 94, Economic Research Southern Africa.
2007
Wittenberg, Martin and Collinson, Mark,Restructuring of households in rural South Africa: Reflections on average household size in the Agincourt sub-district 1992-2003, SALDRU working paper 12
Wittenberg, Martin, Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice model while dealing with unobservables, Working Papers 46, Economic Research Southern Africa.
Wittenberg, Martin, Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression, MPRA Paper 2550, University Library of Munich, Germany.
2006
Leibbrandt, Murray and Wittenberg, Martin, Evaluation Report: Poverty and Social Welfare.
This report was compiled as part of an evaluation of the World Bank's research output by a panel chaired by Angus Deaton.
Wittenberg, Martin, The Unions and the Labour Market: Politics and Premiums, in Transformation Audit: Money and Morality, Cape Town: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, p.55-57.
2005
Wittenberg, Martin, Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression: Or how to "fix" a bad variable by adding multiple proxies for it, CSSR working paper 132
Wittenberg, Martin, The school day in South Africa, CSSR working paper 113
2004
Wittenberg, Martin, The mystery of South Africa's ghost workers in 1996: measurement and mismeasurement in the manufacturing census, population census and October Household Surveys, CSSR working paper 95
2001
Wittenberg, Martin Conflictual intra-household allocations, Working Papers 211, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies.
Lubotsky, Darren and Wittenberg, Martin, Interpretation of regressions with multiple proxies, Working Papers 836, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.