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Estimating the short run effects of South Africa's employment tax incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach
Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden - In: The South African journal of economics 84 (2016) 2, pp. 199-216
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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
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The labor market and poverty impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa
Jain, Ronak; Budlender, Joshua; Zizzamia, Rocco; … - 2020
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The labour market and poverty impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Zizzamia, Rocco; … - In: The South African journal of economics 91 (2023) 4, pp. 419-445
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Social distress and (some) relief : estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022
Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty estimates, simulating incomes in prepandemic household...
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The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country : evidence from South Africa
Köhler, Timothy; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert - 2023
unemployment rates in the world, we find that the policy increased the probability of remaining employed in the short term by 15 …
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Unemployment rate benchmarks
Crump, Richard K.; Nekarda, Christopher J.; … - 2020
This paper discusses various concepts of unemployment rate benchmarks that are frequently used by policymakers for … particular, we propose two broad categories of unemployment rate benchmarks: (1) a longer-run unemployment rate expected to … prevail after adjusting to business cycle shocks and (2) a stable-price unemployment rate tied to inflationary pressures. We …
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Testing positive for automation : labour-replacing technology and job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Euston-Brown, Angela - 2022
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The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed : evidence from South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Köhler, Timothy - 2024
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