Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost … effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms claiming the subsidy with similar firms not claiming the subsidy … impact on youth employment on average. We see a positive and statistically significant effect on youth and non …

along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power. We use a unique and recent …

Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … lowest quintile by 0.17 per cent. This effect is smaller at upper wage quintiles and insignificant for the highest wage … quintile. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increases in minimum wages explain 26 per cent of the decline in wage …

, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization … and 2015. Labour market institutions are crucial to the U-shape. Wage growth at the bottom end has mainly been shored up … by minimum wages, without which we expect wage growth there would have resembled the weaker growth of the middle of the …

agricultural minimum wage hike in 2013 on the outcomes of firms downstream from the agriculture sector with an event study design …. The minimum wage increased labour costs and prices in the agriculture sector. We find that industries with greater … upstream exposure to the agriculture sector experienced greater decreases in assets, sales, and employment for medium to large …

Very little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to … effects of minimum wage changes. The findings indicate that minimum wage has greater employment effects on SMEs, but alters … mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation. Do micro establishments react more aggressively to minimum wage …

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage …-level youth employment, though some important caveats apply. Our results prompt a re-evaluation of the (sometimes contradictory …) existing literature on the employment effects of the ETI: we judge that, in light of our findings, there is insufficient …

global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill … under which such a global policy could well raise labourers' income and generate more employment. …