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Extreme inequalities: The distribution of household wealth in South AfricaSouth Africa is, by most contemporary measures, the most unequal country in the world. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to country’s wealth inequality...
Administrative data Households balance sheets income capitalizationResearch Brief
Monetary policy and firm size in South AfricaMonetary policy affects the real economy through various channels, including the interest rate, exchange rate, credit, and asset price channels. The credit channel has recently received considerable attention...
Credit channel Firm heterogeneity Financial constraintsBlog
International tax research: Why does more than numbers matterCan tax research be inspiring? Looking back at the three years of collaboration between UNU-WIDER and the Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ), the answer is yes – but even that is just the start...
Taxation Administrative data Domestic revenue mobilizationWorking Paper
Industry classification in the South African tax microdataThis paper documents the industry classification variables in the anonymized tax microdata available for research at the National Treasury Secure Data Facility in Pretoria...
Administrative data Industry classification ISIC 4Working Paper
The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector: Evidence from South Africa using data from tax recordsAttempts to regulate the temporary employment sector have had mixed results internationally. In South Africa, temporary employment was regulated in 2015 through amendments to the Labour Relations Act...
Administrative data Employment protection legislation Regression discontinuityWorking Paper
Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South AfricaThis paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics...
Administrative data Households balance sheets income capitalizationBlog
How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequalityIn 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes...
Administrative data Employment GenderWorking Paper
Earnings and employment microdata in South AfricaTraditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period...
Administrative data Data sources EarningsWorking Paper
Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: An agendaUnderstanding wealth inequality has unique significance in South Africa. The co-existence of extreme poverty and extreme wealth is starkly visible. Apartheid-era inequality has persisted despite more than 20 years of democracy...
Administrative data Wealth inequalityWorking Paper
The size distribution of monetary policy effects among South African manufacturing firms: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax dataMonetary policy is believed to have a disproportionate effect on firms, depending on their size...
Credit channel Firm heterogeneity Financial constraintsWorking Paper
Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax dataThis paper has three primary objectives...
Administrative data Employment GenderWorking Paper
Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment?: Evidence from South AfricaThe 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...
Employment Youth unemployment TaxationWorking Paper
The creation of an individual panel using administrative tax microdata in South AfricaThe availability of anonymized individual tax return data can contribute to a deeper understanding of the drivers behind the high levels of inequality and unemployment in South Africa...
Tax data Administrative dataWorking Paper
Top incomes’ impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Combining surveys and income tax data in BrazilThis paper evaluates the impacts of combining household surveys with income tax return files, in terms of growth, inequality, and social welfare in Brazil from 2007 to 2015...
Labour income Personal income tax Household dataWorking Paper
How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector?: Evidence for South Africa using administrative dataPublic debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers’ wages and benefits...
Temporary employment services Wage differentials Administrative dataAbout
SA-TIED work stream 2: Public revenue mobilization for inclusive developmentThis work stream has two main aims. First, to arrange access to individual and firm-level taxpayer data at South African Revenue Service (SARS) for research use. The goal is to create well documented longitudinal datasets with key variables that can...
Public revenue Administrative data