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Overview

Dorrit Posel is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and has a significant body of research primarily within the social sciences and health professions. Their work addresses topics related to employment, welfare, health disparities, gender dynamics, and social stratification, focusing largely on South African contexts.

The scientist's research spans several main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Gender Studies
  • Health
  • Safety Research

Key topics explored in their publications include:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Posel has authored multiple papers, among which the following are recent examples:

  • "Job loss and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from South Africa" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Moving during times of crisis: Migration, living arrangements and COVID-19 in South Africa" (2021), published in Scientific African
  • "Living alone and depression in a developing country context: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa" (2021), published in SSM - Population Health
  • "Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from a large national survey during South Africa's lockdown" (2020), published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • "Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa" (2020), published in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Adeola Oyenubi
  • Daniela Casale
  • Mark Hunter
  • Katharine Hall
  • Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Posel regularly publishes in journals such as:

  • SSM - Population Health
  • Social Indicators Research
  • Applied Research in Quality of Life
  • PLoS ONE
  • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Best Publications

  • Labour migration and households: A reconsideration of the effects of the social pension on labour supply in South Africa

    Dorrit Posel;James A. Fairburn;Frances Lund

  • Have Migration Patterns in post-Apartheid South Africa Changed?

    Dorrit Posel

  • THE CONTINUED FEMINISATION OF THE LABOUR FORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

    Daniela Casale;Dorrit Posel

  • English language proficiency and earnings in a developing country: The case of South Africa

    Daniela Casale;Dorrit Posel

  • WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING TO INTERNAL LABOUR MIGRATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1993–1999?

    Dorrit Posel;Daniela Casale

  • 'Two Million Net New Jobs': A Reconsideration of the Rise in Employment in South Africa, 1995-2003

    Daniela Casale;Colette Muller;Dorrit Posel

  • Is marriage a dying institution in South Africa? Exploring changes in marriage in the context of ilobolo payments

    Dorrit Posel;Stephanie Rudwick;Daniela Casale

  • Who are the heads of household, what do they do, and is the concept of headship useful? An analysis of headship in South Africa

    Dorrit R Posel

  • Relative standing and subjective well-being in South Africa: The role of perceptions, expectations and income mobility

    Dorrit Posel;Daniela Casale

  • REVISITING INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND SEGMENTATION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR MARKET

    James Heintz;Dorrit Posel

  • Gendered trends in poverty in the post-apartheid period, 1997–2006

    Dorrit Posel;Michael Rogan

  • A reconsideration of what and who is middle class in South Africa

    Justin Visagie;Dorrit Posel

  • How do households work? Migration, the household and remittance behaviour in South Africa

    Dorrit R. Posel

  • Here to work: the socioeconomic characteristics of informal dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa:

    Mark Hunter;Dorrit Posel

  • Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from a large national survey during South Africa’s lockdown

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  • Measured as poor versus feeling poor: Comparing objective and subjective poverty rates in South Africa

    Dorrit Posel;Michael Rogan

  • Households and labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa.

    Dorrit Ruth. Posel

  • Women, income and poverty: Gendered access to resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Dorrit Posel;Michael Rogan

  • Unions and the gender wage gap in South Africa

    Daniela Casale;Dorrit Posel

  • Genetic relatedness predicts South African migrant workers' remittances to their families.

    S. Bowles;S. Bowles;D. Posel

  • INTRA‐FAMILY TRANSFERS AND INCOME‐POOLING

    Dorrit R. Posel

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute

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