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Browsing 2020 - 2029 by Issue Date
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(2021-07)In response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020-21 the South African government instituted various economic relief and stimulus programmes. These included substantial increases to social grant disbursements ...
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(2021-07)This paper quantifies the impact of the covid-19 economic shock on aggregate earnings and employment by industry in South Africa. We construct pre-covid-19 counterfactual forecasts for the 2020 Q2 – 2022 Q4 period and ...
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(2021-07)NIDS-CRAM is widely used to investigate the impact of the COVID pandemic on individuals and households. However, because NIDS-CRAM is a survey of individuals it is difficult to make accurate statements about households. ...
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(2021-08)Latin America continues in social, economic, and political turmoil in 2021. The vulnerabilities set by pre-existing conditions such as persistent inequality, high informality and exclusionary social protection systems have ...
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(2021-10)This paper conducts an analysis of employment uncertainty and trends in South Africa during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, using NIDS-CRAM and five waves of Statistics SA's Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS: ...
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(2021-11)The October Household Surveys (OHS) (1994-9) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) (2002-present) collected by StatsSA comprise South Africa's only nationally-representative time series with information on both people ...
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(2021-12)In this paper we seek to understand how the employment of different age groups in 2020 was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, along with the correlation between individuals’ outcomes and their employment ...
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(2021-12)After an income shock, households reduce spending and asset holding, diversify income sources, and change household composition or location. Migration is common in South Africa, often resulting in food insecurity. During ...
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(2021-12)We study whether South African farm households participating in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South ...
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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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(2022-03)Questions related to the sustainability of post-school education funding in South Africa, together with issues of expanding access and affordability have been fervently debated over the last decade. In 2018, government ...
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(2022-08)Using longitudinal, institutional data, we estimate the effects of pandemic-related closures on the academic performance trajectories of undergraduate students at a university in South Africa. Leveraging data from both ...
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(2022-11)Progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires high quality measurement. Too few attempts are made to assess the accuracy of existing measurements and how it changes over time. We compare household counts ...
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(2023-03)Tax administration statistics now provide considerably more complete and reliable measures of South African personal income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are ...
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(2023-03)The process by which young people leave home in South Africa is central for understanding the lives of the country’s young adult population, as well as, their role in the structural household change that has occurred over ...
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(2023-04)In South Africa, households were formed at about twice the rate that the population grew between 1995-2011, and the count of single-person households mushroomed by 150%. Women became more likely to head households and men ...
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(2023-04)In South Africa, households were formed at about twice the rate that the population grew between census 1996 and census 2011 and the number of single-person households ballooned by 150%. In this paper, I describe trends ...
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(2023-04)In 2021, Ethiopia experienced a prolonged drought after two consecutive failed rainy seasons. This paper investigates the effect of the drought on young adults’ experiences of anxiety and depression by applying a ...
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(2023-07)Incomes are volatile in poor communities and sometimes households live on less than a dollar per day. To cushion themselves from volatile income, poor families resort to borrowing from friends and job hunting. Establishing ...
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(2023-07)Assessing the labour market situation for young people is a critical area of research that has attracted the attention of scholars and policymakers globally. However, understanding the complexity of the labour market for ...
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