Andrew Kerr

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

I teach masters/PhD microeconometrics and labour economics courses, an Honours course in the analysis of household survey data, and am the convenor for the Post Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development.

From 2011 until June 2020 I was employed by DataFirst at UCT, with which I am still associated.

I hold DPhil and MPhil degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford, as well as a BCom (Hons) and BSc from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

I have worked as a short term consultant for the World Bank (2009, 2011, 2017-2019) and have experience in running firm and household surveys in Ghana (2013) and Tanzania (2008).

I am the founder and co-owner of TaxiMap- a website to help people to get around on minibus taxis.

Publications

Journal Articles

• Kerr, A. and Wittenberg, M. (2021). Union wage premia and Wage inequality in South Africa. Economic Modelling.

• This paper is a substantially reworked (improved?) version of our REDI3x3 working paper.

• Kerr, A. and De Jager, P. (2021). A Description of Predatory Publishing in South African Economics Departments. South African Journal of Economics.

• Kerr, A. and Wittenberg, M. (2020). The Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Davies, E and Kerr, A. (2018). Firm Survival and Change in Ghana 2003-2013. Journal of African Economies. 27(2), 149-171

• Kerr, A (2018). Job flows, worker flows, and churning in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics. 86(S1), 141-166.

• Kerr, A and Piraino, P and Ranchhod, V (2017). Estimating the size and impact of Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Cape Town. South African Journal of Economics, 85(4): 515-532.

• Kerr, A. (2017). Tax(i)ing the poor? Commuting costs in South African Cities. South African Journal of Economics, 85(3), 321-340. Doi: 10.1111/saje.12161

• Kerr, A. and Teal, F. (2015). The determinants of earnings inequalities: Panel data evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Journal of African Economies, doi: 10.1093/jae/ejv006.

• Kerr, A., & Wittenberg, M. (2015). Sampling methodology and fieldwork changes in the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys. Development Southern Africa, 32(5): 603–612.

• Kerr, A., Wittenberg, M. and Arrow, J. (2014). Job creation and destruction in South Africa, South African Journal of Economics, 82(1): 1-18.

• Falco, P., Kerr, A., Rankin, N., Sandefur, J. and Teal, F. (2011). The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa, Labour Economics, 18: S23-S31.

Books

• Falco, P., Kerr, A., Paci, P. & Rijkers, B. (2014). Working toward better pay: Earning dynamics in Ghana and Tanzania, World Bank Studies. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Datasets

• Kerr, Andrew, Lam, David and Wittenberg, Martin. The Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS). This is a harmonised version of Statistics South Africa's October Household Surveys, Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Labour Force Surveys, and the 1993 PSLSD, including labour market information from 1993 to Q2 2019. Version 3.3 was released in September 2019.

Book Reviews

• Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa – Edited by Philippe De Vreyer and François Roubaud. The Developing Economies, 2014, 52(4): 383-386.