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Firm-level employment growth in South Africa : the role of innovation and exports
Naidoo, Karmen - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …
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Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? : evidence from South Africa
Ebrahim, Amina; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2019
The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy system that is targeted at the employers of low-wage youth. The paper uses a triple differences strategy and survey and administrative data, covering the universe of South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987108
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The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment
Ebrahim, Amina; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal - 2017
South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588891
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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232079
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Minimum wage and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2014
This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates, and the level of wages in Ecuador. A 12-year panel was built. It allows to overcome the short time span of household data and so to characterize changes over time. Results...
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008 - 09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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The dynamics of formal employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda
McNabb, Kyle; Barugahara, Tina Kaidu; Kavuma, Susan … - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal sector employment in Uganda. Utilizing employee-level administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority, we describe the dynamics of employment as the pandemic evolved, seeking to better understand the various coping...
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Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level
Devereux, Kevin; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024
Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they do not exceed the marginal product of labour. We find evidence of non-monotonicity both by market structure and minimum wage level. Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours...
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Special economic zones in Southern Africa : white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? : the case of Zambia and South Africa
Phiri, Mwanda; Manchishi, Shimukunku - 2020
The successful use of special economic zones as economic tools for export-led industrial development in East Asia propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic zones in their respective legal and institutional...
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Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation : evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data
Piek, Marlies; Fintel, Dieter von; Kirsten, Johann F. - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from the destruction of existing jobs and from the slower...
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