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Economists versus the Street: Comparative Viewpoints on Barriers to Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Cichello, Paul; Mncube, Liberty; Oosthuizen, Morne; … - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2011
What prevents the unemployed in Khayelitsha, South Africa from trying self-employment? Perceptions of a small group of academic economists are presented and compared to the perceptions of unemployed Khayelitsha residents themselves. The largest differences in view-points are that a) academics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766065
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Cause and cure of the crisis
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108214
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Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
Pauw, Kalie; Mncube, Liberty - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2007
welfare grants and has been important in the fi ght against poverty. Given these apparent successes, many are calling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395724
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The Impact of Growth and Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
Pauw, Kalie; Mncube, Liberty - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2007
This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395757
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Minimum Wage Violation in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2011
Minimum wage legislation is central in South African policy discourse, with both strong support and strong opposition. The validity of either position depends, however, on the effectiveness of minimum wage enforcement. Using detailed matching of occupational, sectoral and locational codes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766061
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Estimating a poverty line: An application to free basic municipal services in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Oosthuizen, Morne; Westhuizen, Carlene … - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2011
to all households with a monthly income of less than R1500 per month. This “FBS poverty line” is, however, low in … comparison with a number of unofficial poverty lines utilised by policymakers and researchers in South Africa. This paper … increases in their FBS budgets with any potential increase in the FBS poverty line. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766063
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Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance : The Case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2011
determinants of violation is found to be the local unemployment rate. However, the number of labour inspectors is found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766070
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A Nation in Search of Jobs: Six Possible Policy Suggestions for Employment Creation in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012
I provide six possible employment creating policy options within the arena of principally, but not exclusively, active labour market policy. The notion is that interventions in these areas should provide for short-term and possibly long-term employment creation avenues and options for the...
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The Craft of Economics: Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework
Leamer, Edward E. - The MIT Press
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. Claiming “a lifetime relationship...
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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Empirical
Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I argue that a form of consciousness may be found in American economic history, one which is both mathematically demonstrable and important. In this book I present a model of economic and political growth based upon systematic addition. We begin with a philosophic model of trade (pp. 34-46);...
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