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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data

Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into …

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'Ground-truthing' Chinese development finance in Africa : field evidence from South Africa and Uganda

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Nielson, Daniel L.; Parks, Bradley; … - 2014

A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments - about Chinese development...

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Introduction to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel

Pieterse, Duncan; Kreuser, Friedrich; Gavin, Elizabeth - 2016

The South African Revenue Service and National Treasury Firm-Level Panel is an unbalanced panel data set created by merging several sources of administrative tax data received during 2015. The four data sources that constitute the panel are: (i) company income tax from registered firms who...

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Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa : an agenda

Chatterjee, Aroop - 2019

Understanding wealth inequality has unique significance in South Africa. The coexistence of extreme poverty and extreme wealth is starkly visible. Apartheid-era inequality has persisted despite more than 20 years of democracy. Much of the research on inequality has focused on inequality of...

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Youth unemployment hysteresis in South Africa : macro-micro analysis

Maskaeva, Asiya; Msafiri, Mgeni - 2021

unemployment in South Africa. Specifically, we apply a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to calibrate the 2015 South … African Social Accounting Matrix to estimate, compare, and determine the impact of employment policy on youth unemployment as … a decline in the unemployment rate. Moreover, the consumer price index decreased more than nominal income, thereby …

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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014

Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...

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Suburbanization and residential desegregation in South Africa's cities

Naudé, Wim - 2010

Population density gradients for South Africa's cities are quite small in absolute value, indicating a relatively flat population distribution across the cities. In contrast employment is less flatly distributed than the population. The relationship between employment densities and distance...

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Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South Africa : evidence from a firm-level panel

Mulumba, Sanduku; Edwards, Lawrence; Fadiran, David … - 2024

In this paper, we use the new economic geography (NEG) framework to estimate the extent to which spatial wage disparities in the South African manufacturing sector are an outcome of economic forces such as market access. To test the relationship, we use the anonymized tax data on employers and...

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Job flows, worker flows, and churning in South Africa

Kerr, Andrew - 2016

In this paper, worker and job flows are estimated using the IRP5 data from the South African Revenue Services. The data used in this paper is from the 2011-14 tax years and contains information on more than 12 million individuals and nearly 300,000 firms. The main finding of the paper is that...

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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...

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