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South African population projection and household survey sample weight recalibration
Machemedze, Takwanisa; Kerr, Andrew; Dorrington, Rob - 2020
inadequate for calibration of sample weights in post-apartheid South African household surveys. The official mid-year population … Africa model has become outdated, and the updated Thembisa model does not produce estimates by population groups. We … consistent demographic data disaggregated by age groups, sex, and population groups as well as by province from 1990 to 2022 …
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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges
Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015
Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413477
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Female labour force participation in subSaharan Africa : a cohort analysis
Backhaus, Andreas; Loichinger, Elke - 2021
Female labour force participation rates have stagnated in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium. This paper aims to explain this aggregate pattern by decomposing it into the labour supply behaviour of different birth cohorts and age groups. Using representative and repeated census...
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The prospects for an imminent demographic dividend in Africa : the case for cautious optimism
Basu, Alaka Malwade; Basu, Kaushik - 2014
fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250177
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Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding : fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa
Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Mejía-Guevara, Iván; Akachi, Yoko - 2016
The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456182
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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences...
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Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household survey data to dig into these trends and provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382454
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The demographic transformation of post-socialist countries
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2010
The formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660837
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Inequality and the generational economy : race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015
Oosthuizen, Morné - 2019
Differences in the economic lifecycle between countries at different levels of development suggest that there may be differences between sub-populations within countries, particularly where the sub-populations have different levels of income. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987087
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015
This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
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