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Settler skills and colonial development
Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter von - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The emphasis on location-specific factors, such as climate or disease environment, in the explanation of development outcomes in colonial societies implicitly assumes that settler groups were homogenous. Using tax records, this paper shows that the French Huguenots who immigrated to Dutch South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003252
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Indirect Taxation and Gender Equity: Evidence from South Africa
Casale, Daniela - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2010
This paper explores the equity implications of indirect or consumption taxes from a gender perspective, using detailed expenditure data for South Africa. While a growing literature on the incidence of indirect taxes investigates their impact on the income distribution in developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673558
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A reconsideration of what and who is middle class in South Africa
Visagie, Justin; Posel, Dorrit - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
definitions, a finding which reflects very high levels of poverty and inequality in the country. Lastly, both definitions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319024
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Production, Inequality and Poverty linkages in South Africa
Ngepah, Nicholas - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
-group) and poverty with 3sls using South African data. The findings suggest that production is affected negatively by between … Kuznets process. There is a significant poverty-increasing (reducing) effect of total and between-group inequalities (output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876346
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What are the Distributional Implications of Halving Poverty in South Africa when Growth Alone is not Enough?
Tregenna, Fiona - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The South African government has set a target of halving poverty by 2014. Using microdata from the 2005/6 Income and … Expenditure Survey, this article frames government’s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of … the poverty gap and poverty headcount ratio. With the poverty line as defined here, about half the South African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021401
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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jorg - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agriculturalâ€export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human wellâ€being we explore the evolution of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603708
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Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games
Halliday, Simon - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
In attempting to understand cooperation, economists have used the methods of experimental economics to focus on spheres of human behavior in which humans display altruism, reciprocity, or other social preferences through giving and through punishment. Recent work has begun to examine whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876344
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Equality of Opportunity in South Africa
Piraino, Patrizio - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
The paper estimates the degree of intergenerational earnings persistence in South Africa. It explores the link between this measure of social mobility and an index of inequality of opportunity. Using microdata from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), the paper finds that intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888684
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Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2008
Rogan, Michael - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
In this paper, I investigate the characteristics and poverty status of female- and male-headed households in South … General Household Surveys (2004 and 2008). These years (1997-2008) represent a period for which there is an extensive poverty … literature documenting (particularly in the 2000s) an overall decrease in the poverty headcount rate. At the same time, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550938
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How the ‘Hand of Henry’ Benefited the South African Economy
Fourie, Johan; Santana-Gallego, María - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
This paper highlights an aspect of mega-events that has been neglected: the changing composition of tourist arrivals during and after theevent. The change happens because, in the FIFA World Cup, a quota of countries participates from each continent and this opens up new tourismmarkets. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204509