are found for Kenya, Mauritius, and South Africa. On the contrary, negative effects are found for Algeria, Nigeria …

Do growth spells in Africa end because of bad realizations of the same factors that influence growth spells in the rest … spells in Africa and the rest of the world using Bayesian Mode Averaging techniques for proportional hazards models. We …, macroeconomic policy, and sociopolitical factors. Our analysis suggests that determinants of growth spells in Africa are different …

unemployment in South Africa. Precisely, the findings show that a strikes shock has a positive transient impact on non …-agricultural employment in South Africa using a structural analysis of Bayesian VAR models with a Normal inverted Wishart prior for the period … 1982-2018. We find empirical support for a strikes shock's transitory negative impact on the country's output growth. In …

fruitful. In terms of dynamic effects, a shock to GDP growth has robustly negative effects on the change in the unemployment …