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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413608
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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data
Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018
employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883413
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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015
This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405514
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Firms' resilience to financial constraints : the role of trade credit
Marcelin, Isaac; Brink, Daniel; Sun, Wei - 2021
. Implicit borrowing in trade finance allows financially constrained firms to bridge the financing gap, expand employment by 8 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509277
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997531
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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …. -- deindustrialization ; reindustrialization ; manufacturing ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306507
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Social policies or private solidarity? : the equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo Flores, Carlos Gerardo; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last decade, which paradoxically has coincided with the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487028
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The elasticity of substitution and labour-displacing technical change in post-apartheid South Africa
Kreuser, Friedrich; Burger, Rulof; Rankin, Neil - 2015
This paper uses normalized constant elasticity of substitution production functions to estimate the elasticity of substitution and labour-augmenting technical change in South Africa over the period 1994-2012. We find elasticities of 0.6-0.9 and positive labour-augmenting technical change, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345030
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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251669
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650881