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Browsing 2020 - 2029 by Issue Date
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(2020-02)Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms’ sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, ...
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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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(2020-04)Mobility is a multifaceted concept with social, economic and political implications. Spatial mobility, inequality and precarity intertwine. This article reflects on the role of mobility and precarity and the emergence of ...
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(2020-06)The covid-19 pandemic presents a particular challenge to countries with high levels of labour market informality. Informal workers and their households are especially vulnerable to the negative economic consequences of the ...
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(2020-06)A burgeoning literature in economics uses firm census data to provide explanations for the very large differences in income per capita across countries. Much of this literature takes for granted that the coverage of firm ...
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(2020-07)The Post-school Education and Training (PSET) system in South Africa is comprised of a diverse range of education and training institutions, and institutional types. This study provides an overview of the state of data ...
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(2020-07)We use newly-released South African data to present the first estimates of COVID-19-related employment and poverty impacts in a developing country. We observe a 40% decline in active employment. Half of this comprises job ...
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(2020-07)The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis that will exacerbate the South African unemployment crisis. As a temporary measure, the lockdown has prevented a substantial number of people from going to work. In addition, the ...
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(2020-07)The sample frame for NIDS-CRAM is NIDS wave 5, which was conducted in 2017. Continuing sample members (CSMs) and temporary sample members (TSMs) who were 18 years or older at the time of the NIDS-CRAM wave 1 fieldwork in ...
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(2020-08)Latin America was in turmoil in 2019. Protests raged across different countries and against governments across the political spectrum. Widespread mobilisation from social organisations denounced corruption and voiced various ...
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(2020-09)The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused serious threats to people’s physical health but has also triggered a wide range of mental health problems. This study sought to assess the prevalence of, and factors associated ...
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(2020-10)Previous economic downturns such as the recent 2008-2009 global financial crisis have tended to disproportionately affect male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g. manufacturing). ...
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(2020-10)In this paper, we re-examine private transfer behaviour in light of recent public and media discourse on black tax. In particular, we aim to better understand whether graduates of post-secondary education face disproportionate ...
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(2020-10)This paper investigates the determinants of attrition between Waves 1 and 2 of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM). The number of successfully interviewed respondents reduced ...
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The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2 (2020-11)We use Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM data to provide an update to our original estimates (Jain et al., 2020) of COVID-19-related employment and poverty impacts in South Africa. Compared to the most stringent phase of South Africa's ...
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(2020-11)This technical report assesses the overall quality of data collected in the first wave of NIDS-CRAM. Several quality dimensions are investigated including the importance of item non-response, measurement error and the ...
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(2020-12)How important are credit constraints for educational persistence and performance at the university level in South Africa? We use institutional data to measure the impact of credit rationing on re-enrollment rates at the ...
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(2021-04)South Africa was one of the most unequal countries in the world in 1994 and inequality has featured prominently as a key socio-economic and policy challenge over the post-apartheid period. Yet, despite policy interventions ...
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(2021-04)This paper highlights the unnecessary complexity of South Africa’s Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) benefit function, known as the Income Replacement Rate (IRR), and the disadvantageous manner in which the IRR is low for ...
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(2021-07)Employment levels and the distribution of earnings by industry in 2010 and 2019/20 are examined in this paper, illustrating trends over this decade before the impact of Covid-19 and the accompanying economic downturn. ...
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