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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014
medium-skilled occupations such as managers, professionals, service and sales workers have seen significant growth while the … by Firpo et al. (2011) in an attempt to explore the way in which the returns to certain tasks (rather than occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413608
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Labour market polarization in South Africa : a decomposition analysis
Davies, Robert H.; Seventer, Dirk van - 2020
There is evidence from developed countries that technical change affects not only the employment intensity of production, but also the occupational composition of employment. The use of artificial intelligence, automation, and robots has changed the skills composition of employment. A range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174024
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Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters
Matthee, Marianne; Rankin, Neil; Bezuidenhout, Carli - 2017
This paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa. We disentangle labour market differences between exporters and non-exporters and find that exporters employ more people and pay higher wages. Given these higher wages we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592490
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The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003-19) : a descriptive analysis
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Portella, Alysson; Riva, Flavio; … - 2021
In this paper we use different sources of data on job task content to investigate the importance of occupations and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650747
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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : Insider-outsider theory revisited
Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019
Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians … an equalizing effect, with more substantial gains in favour of lower-skill occupations and also at the top of the skill … returns to education and the relocation of workers towards less-routine occupations have contributed to the inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483436
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Le Minh, Phuong; Marshalian, Michelle - 2020
In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on Tunisian labour force surveys from the past 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405618
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Taking stock of South African income inequality
Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal; Green, Pippa - 2018
We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use new datasets—including income tax data—and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased...
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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018
We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947049
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The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2018
In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 was high and relatively stable, there were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883417