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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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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

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 …

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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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The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa

Köhler, Timothy; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert - 2023

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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