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Estimating employment responses to South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive

Budlender, Joshua; Ebrahim, Amina - 2021

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …

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Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa

Ebrahim, Amina; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2019

The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy … influence on the employment rate of eligible workers. The number of jobs in the region where the subsidy is the greatest has …

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Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax data

Ebrahim, Amina; Lilenstein, Kezia - 2019

This paper has three primary objectives. First, it provides a broad overview of the available South African data used to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data which has recently been made available. Second, the paper...

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Labor Market Regulation and Employment in the Caribbean

Downes, Andrew S.; Mamingi, Nlandu; Antoine, Rose-Marie … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the … demand side of the labor market by examining the impact which labor market regulations have had on employment creation in the … on employment determination, using econometric methods. …

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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