countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector - important for growth and employment creation - has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …

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 …

, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …

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 …

employment opportunities and social group membership serve as potential pathways via which ethnic diversity increases financial …

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 …

movement in South African labour markets over the crisis period. Chances of continued employment vary along gender, age and …

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 …