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This paper provides an analysis of poverty in South Africa by focussing on the labour market. Gauteng, South Africa … compared in-migrants to non-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges … labourers and the approximation of economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances. …
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and comprehensive model of earnings in the South African labour market. Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has …-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges that in-migrant households may … economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances. …
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are so pronounced that the profile of poverty is robust to changes in the underlying measurement assumptions. Gauteng … migration to and migrant labour in Gauteng by using the 2001 Census and the September 2002 Labour Force Survey. South African … outside of Gauteng, or individuals whose most recent move in the 1996-2001 period was to Gauteng from one of the other eight …
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In quot;The Road to Serfdom,quot; F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic and social planning to the problems of peacetime. Hayek argued that the rise of Nazism was not due to any character failure on the part of the German people,...
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Liberalization unleashed a wave of globalization over the period 1980-2007, and the international sector experienced miracle growth. While profits rose to all time highs, global saving exceeded global investment. Long-term interest rates declined to very low levels. After a global housing...
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This white paper definitively proves that no Formulaic Asset Allocation (FAA) approach (Lifecycle, Target Date, Target Risk, Balanced Funds, Managed Accounts and Monte Carlo Simulation) can provide Plan Participants with nearly enough money for retirement income security, and that FAA exposes...
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Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys...
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This public lecture discusses the criticisms of rational choice theory that have emerged within the recent literature on experimental and behavioral economics, and speculates about the possible impact on the discipline of economics
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This paper examines the externalities created in the Canadian securities market by virtue of the current system of provincial regulation. We examine the current system using the anticommons model, which predicts a decrease in the total value of a resource when too many parties have the right to...
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