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Labour market polarization in South Africa : a decomposition analysis

Davies, Robert H.; Seventer, Dirk van - 2020

There is evidence from developed countries that technical change affects not only the employment intensity of production, but also the occupational composition of employment. The use of artificial intelligence, automation, and robots has changed the skills composition of employment. A range of...

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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy : the case of South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020

Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization in an emerging economy resemble those explored for...

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Unequal expectations : gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps : evidence from Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018

wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits. Our results show that cognitive … skills have greater explanatory power than personality traits in determining mean wages. Unconditional quantile regressions …. Cognitive skills cumulatively account for a larger share of the explained component than personality traits do, and matter more …

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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...

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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...

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The allocation of entrepreneurial talent and destructive entrepreneurship

Sanders, Mark; Weitzel, Utz - 2010

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits. However, it has been argued that the same energy and...

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Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work : evidence from Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh

Bidisha, Sayema Haque; Mahmood, Tanveer; Rahman, Mahir A. - 2021

With structural changes in production coupled with technological progress, there have been shifts in modes of production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations. This paper has utilized different rounds of Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh...

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Evolution of wage inequality in India (1983-2017) : the role of occupational task content

Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020

We examine data for urban workers in the non-agricultural sector across three decades, 1983-2017, and find that earnings inequality increased during 1983-2004, was largely stable during 2004-11, and decreased during 2011-17. We explore whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for...

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Inequality and structural transformation in the changing nature of work : the case of Indonesia

Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Halim, Putri Riswani - 2021

This paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find evidence of a disproportionate increase in the returns to...

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