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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the … present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before … entering a period of premature deindustrialization. Today, the services sector has become the primary driver of growth and …
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South Africa has exhibited tepid economic growth over the past twenty years as well as high levels of income inequality … characteristic of a middle income country growth trap. This paper compares and contrasts South Africa's growth trap relative to … perpetuated the persistently low levels of growth observed. In particular we consider the capital-intensive nature of …
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This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on … structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the …
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Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015 … Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 … and 2015. Labour market institutions are crucial to the U-shape. Wage growth at the bottom end has mainly been shored up …
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-productivity, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period … characterized by increasingly sophisticated services. A key driver of export growth is the expansion of foreign direct investment …
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This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement, followed by a brief discussion of the labour market legislation and institutions formed since 1994. Thereafter, a detailed evaluation of the impact of trade unions, legislation, and institutions on labour market...
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medium-skilled occupations such as managers, professionals, service and sales workers have seen significant growth while the … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work …
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Labour market analysis in the South African context provides a relatively robust understanding of the individual characteristics that influence wage differentials across workers (i.e. supply-side characteristics), but provides relatively little insight into the firm-level characteristics...
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Wage subsidies have served as a primary labour market policy used around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, where unemployment is among the highest globally, the Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme supported millions of workers in a...
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Wage subsidies served as a dominant labour market policy response around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no causal evidence of their effects exists for developing countries. We use unique panel labour force survey data and exploit a temporary...
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