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Amina Ebrahim
Research Associate
Amina Ebrahim is an economist holding a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER based in Helsinki where she is a core researcher in the Domestic Revenue Mobilisation programme. She previously worked on UNU-WIDER’s Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) in Pretoria, South Africa.
Her research interests include labour and public economics, focusing on employment, tax, and social policies. Her recent research has focused on the evaluation of the South Africa’s youth wage subsidy policy using tax data from South Africa. Her works focuses on making large administrative tax data available for research and research collaboration with African revenue authorities.
Before joining UNU-WIDER, Amina spent six years teaching at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar.
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Working Paper
Estimating employment responses to South Africa’s Employment Tax IncentiveWe present new evidence on the effects of South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment...
Difference-in-differences Employment event studyBackground Note
Building tax data for research: The South African experienceIntroduction: data for development Globally, one of the key factors associated with increasing use of data to inform policy-making has been the increased availability of new administrative data sources...
Tax data Administrative data South AfricaBlog
Using tax data to inform economic policy in South AfricaCountries need data and evidence to create, amend, and evaluate policy. Indeed, one of the key mandates of policy makers in South Africa is to make evidence-based policy decisions which improve the policy landscape of the country...
Workshop
Code development training for Tanzania Revenue authorityUNU-WIDER organized an online code development training workshop using the Stata statistical software for the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) staff on 20 January 2021. The objective of the training was to build the technical capacity of the TRA...
Technical Note
Identifying foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises: CIT-IRP5 panel v4.0The identification of foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the CIT-IRP5 panel has proved to be a challenge for many researchers...
Multinational firms Foreign firms Tax dataWorking 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 4
Background Note
COVID-19 and socioeconomic impact in Africa: The case of South AfricaWhat has the government of South Africa done with respect to COVID-19 measures of mitigation and suppression? The first COVID-19 positive case was confirmed on 5 March 2020...
COVID-19 South Africa Government actionBlog
Meet the women behind the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme
Globally, women are under-represented in the field of economics. Only a third of all academic research staff in the field of economics in Europe are women. In the US the share is even lower ...
Gender Women's empowerment Women's workNews
Women and Girls in Science 2020 campaignVideo of Women in Science - With Simone Schotte On 11 February the world celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science . UNU-WIDER, along with other institutes across United Nations University, are taking this day of celebration a...
Blog
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 GenderProject
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data
Theme: Transforming states
Taxation Administrative data Tax complianceSeminar
Amina Ebrahim on can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa
Working 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 GenderPresentation
UNU-WIDER shares latest research at CSAE conference in OxfordThe Centre for the Study of African Economies 2019 conference on Economic Development took place 17-19 March in Oxford, UK. The conference showcased the latest research and featured panel discussions on current topics affecting economic development...
Working 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 Taxation