structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … Series, it analyses flows between the formal sector, informal sector, and unemployment, paying specific attention to how … accounting for wage employment and self-employment as well as upper-tier and lower-tier informal sector segments. Transition …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into … 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. …

product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. … transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of …

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 …

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage … subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment. We show that attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …

dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …