Browsing 2010 - 2019 by Subject "Employment"

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Browsing 2010 - 2019 by Subject "Employment"

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  • Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study 
    Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray; Daniels, Reza Che (Development Southern Africa, 2014)
    The National Income Dynamics Study is the first national panel study of South African individuals. Its objective is to track these individuals over time to study social mobility. This paper documents the survey design and ...
  • Job creation and destruction in South Africa 
    Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin; Arrow, Jairo (South African Journal of Economics, 2014)
    Analysts of the South African labour market have mainly used household surveys to analyse the labour market. It has been more difficult to explore the labour demand of firms, as a result of limited data availability. We ...
  • The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa 
    Falco, Paulo; Kerr, Andrew; Rankin, Neil; Sandefur, Justin; Teal, Francis (Labour Economics, 2011)
    This paper addresses the questions as to the size and causes of earnings differentials in two urban African labor markets, those of Ghana and Tanzania. We have panel data so we can ask how far time invariant unobservables, ...
  • Revisiting wage subsidies: How pro-poor is a South African wage subsidy likely to be? 
    Burns, Justine; Edwards, Lawrence; Pauw, Karl (Development Southern Africa, 2013)
    Wage subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment. After a decade of deliberation, the South African Government recently announced the introduction of a wage subsidy scheme. Given ...
  • Winners and losers: South African labour market dynamics between 2008 and 2010 
    Cichello, Paul; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (Development Southern Africa, 2014)
    There is little empirical work in South Africa using panel data to describe employment and earnings dynamics. This paper contributes by describing labour-market transitions in South Africa between 2008 and 2010 for individuals ...

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