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employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were …
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This paper investigates whether a Taylor rule accurately describes the South African Reserve Bank's reaction function in setting interest rates using quarterly data, covering the period since inflation targeting was formally adopted in 2000. The classic Taylor rule is modified to determine...
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world, it was not spared from the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis. The economy has not recovered and employment …
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compare total labour income and employment between 2011 and 2017 with other sources of data, including Statistics South Africa …'s Quarterly Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Employment Statistics firm surveys. Finally, I use the data to estimate Gini …
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This paper assesses the impact of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment in South Africa. The cost …-minimizing, global energy system model (GENeSYS-MOD) is utilized to project two energy mix scenarios and their associated employment … generation dominated by solar and wind capacity. The increase in renewable energy sources (RES) generates employment in the …
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We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …
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employment opportunities and social group membership serve as potential pathways via which ethnic diversity increases financial …
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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 … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …
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movement in South African labour markets over the crisis period. Chances of continued employment vary along gender, age and …
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preferred tax scenario reduces national absorption and employment by 1.2 and 0.6 per cent, respectively, by 2025. However, if … South Africa's trading partners unilaterally impose a carbon consumption tax then welfare and employment losses exceed those … of a domestic carbon tax. Border tax adjustments improve welfare and employment while maintaining the same emissions …
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