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This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
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Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...
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The labour market is central in determining individual and household well-being in South Africa. Therefore, an understanding of earnings and employment dynamics is a key policy issue. However, the absence of panel data has constrained empirical work addressing these issues. This paper makes use...
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on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … for skilled labour has also fed into and changed the structure of wages, and therefore wage inequality. We follow the work … presence of increasingly routinized tasks and offshoring, on wages. We run quantile regressions which suggest that, when …
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