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This paper investigates whether a Taylor rule accurately describes the South African Reserve Bank's reaction function in setting interest rates using quarterly data, covering the period since inflation targeting was formally adopted in 2000. The classic Taylor rule is modified to determine...
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compare total labour income and employment between 2011 and 2017 with other sources of data, including Statistics South Africa …'s Quarterly Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Employment Statistics firm surveys. Finally, I use the data to estimate Gini …
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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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employment opportunities and social group membership serve as potential pathways via which ethnic diversity increases financial …
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Even though donor focus on employment has varied through the evolution of international development cooperation, there … is nowadays widespread consensus on its overall importance as an overarching development goal. Employment promotion is … for indirect employment promotion as a tool for temporary poverty mitigation on the one hand and approaches that …
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. However recent research revealed that they do not necessarily lead to higher growth and employment rates. Recent studies … employment rates. Enterprises in Africa and Latin America caught up in matters of technology; however, this process resulted in a … substitution of employment by technology. The same is true for structural change; only the "right" kind of structural change caused …
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Apart from the 200 Million unemployed, the problem of employment also affects more than 900 Million precariously … and try to handle potential trade-offs. Decisions on policies promoting employment should not be based on their low … of the paper discusses country experiences and examples of strategies fostering growth and employment and identifies the …
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1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …
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movement in South African labour markets over the crisis period. Chances of continued employment vary along gender, age and …
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preferred tax scenario reduces national absorption and employment by 1.2 and 0.6 per cent, respectively, by 2025. However, if … South Africa's trading partners unilaterally impose a carbon consumption tax then welfare and employment losses exceed those … of a domestic carbon tax. Border tax adjustments improve welfare and employment while maintaining the same emissions …
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