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(2017-04)This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests ...
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(CSSR and SALDRU, 2004-12)Using firm-level manufacturing data supplemented with wages from household survey data, this paper estimates translog cost functions to calculate labour demand elasticities and Allen Elasticities of Substitution between ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-02)When asset indices are used in regressions the coefficients obtained are typically difficult to interpret. We show how lower bounds on expenditure effects can be extracted, if the relationship between the assets and ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-03)We estimate the effect of a teenage birth on the educational attainment of young mothers in Cape Town, South Africa. Longitudinal and retrospective data on youth from the CAPS dataset are used. We control for a number of ...
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(2020-02)What were the effects of being officially classified as White on labour market outcomes during apartheid in South Africa? South Africa's apartheid government implemented a comprehensive system of discrimination against ...
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(2015-08)Our previous study of the effects of South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) (Ranchhod and Finn, 2014) found that the ETI did not have a statistically significant impact on youth employment probabilities in the first ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-06)This paper investigates the impact of Texas's Top Ten Percent Rule - which grants automatic entry to any public college in Texas for Texas high school graduates who graduate in the top decile - and subsequent targeted ...
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(2014-10)What effect did the introduction of the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) have on youth employment probabilities in South Africa in the short run? The ETI came into effect on the 1st of January 2014. Its purpose is to stimulate ...
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(2016-08)In this paper we estimate the extent and targeting of affirmative action at the University of Cape Town, a large public university in South Africa. To do this we use admissions data from the University of Cape Town (UCT), ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-11)This paper examines the individual determinants of ethnic identification using large sample surveys (about 30,000 respondents) representative of seven capitals of West-African countries. A small model that relates ethnic ...
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Ethnolinguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from South Africa (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011)This paper utilises techniques in experimental economics to investigate the impact of racial identity on the provision of public goods. A large sample of Black and White undergraduate University students were recruited to ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-10)This paper has two broad objectives. The first objective is broadly methodological and deals with some of the more pertinent estimation issues one should be aware of when studying the impact of health status on economic ...
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(2013-07)Panel surveys offer a valuable tool for researchers to explore the dynamics underlying individual and household behaviours. The Achilles heel of panel data is attrition. This paper examines the determinants and implications ...
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2010-07)What happens when a previously uncovered labor market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages and formal contract ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2010-10)At the time of the transition to democracy in 1994, the South African social security system was already notably well developed for a middle income country (Lund 1993; Van der Berg 1997; Case and Deaton 1998). This fact ...
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(2021-12)This paper uses nationally representative household survey data to examine changes in household transport expenditure in South Africa from 1995 to 2015. These data show a dramatic increase in transport expenditure, in both ...
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(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)This paper investigates the effects of long bouts of unemployment on the employment probabilities of the unemployed, and the factors affecting unemployment duration. This is achieved through the estimation of the hazard ...
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(2017-12)This paper explores the potential of a negative income tax to tackle South Africa’s dual challenges of poverty and income inequality. Using a static, arithmetic microsimulation model with NIDS Wave 4 as the base dataset, ...
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(2019-01)The mechanisms that perpetuate poverty are still not well understood. An emerging literature focuses on the psychology of poverty, investigating psychological and behavioral factors that may affect poverty entry and make ...
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