Amina Ebrahim

Research Fellow

Amina Ebrahim is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She is the focal point for 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 evaluating South Africa’s youth wage subsidy policy using tax data from South Africa. Her works focus on making large administrative tax data available for research and 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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Email amina@wider.unu.edu

Twitter @aminae

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    Workshop
    Stata data management training

    A three day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) and Zanzibar Revenue Authority ( ZRA ) in Stonetown, Zanzibar on 2-6 October 2023. Few people in...

    2 October 2023 09:00 – 6 October 2023 16:00
    Zanzibar, Stonetown, Tanzania
    Presentation
    Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative West Africa regional follow-up meeting

    Amina Ebrahim , UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, presents and runs a training at the Addis Tax Initiative ( ATI ) West Africa regional follow-up technical meeting on tax expenditures in Accra, Ghana on 18-20 September 2023. The regional meeting is...

    18 September 2023 – 20 September 2023
    Accra, Ghana
    Past event
    Workshop
    African Tax Administration Forum Master Class in collaboration with UNU-WIDER

    African Tax Administration Forum ( ATAF ) through its Tax Academy organizes a Tax Research Master Class workshop in collaboration with UNU-WIDER. The workshop is held at the African Tax Research Network (ATRN) 8th Annual Congress on 1 September 2023...

    1 September 2023
    Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Past event
    Working Paper
    The uneven path to recovery

    COVID-19 cases were first confirmed in March 2020 in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. These countries put in place several stringent measures, including lockdowns, to contain the spread of the virus. Various policies were also rolled out to address...

    Project meeting
    Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Tanzania

    As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in-progress meeting is held in-person between UNU-WIDER, the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) and University of Dar es Salaam in...

    17 November 2022
    TRA headquarters, Dodoma, Tanzania
    Past event
    Working Paper
    A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa

    This paper uses survey and tax administrative data to analyse the effects of a sizeable employer-borne payroll tax credit for young, low-wage workers in South Africa. We find limited impact of the wage subsidy on employment of young, low-wage workers...

    Presentation
    Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative East Africa workshop

    Amina Ebrahim , UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, gives a presentation at the Addis Tax Initiative ( ATI ) East Africa workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, on 19 October 2022. The workshop is organized by ATI in collaboration with the African Tax Administration...

    18 October 2022 – 19 October 2022
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Past event
    Workshop
    African Tax Administration Forum Master Class in collaboration with UNU-WIDER
    8 September 2022
    Movenpick hotel, Accra, Ghana
    Past event
    Presentation
    Tax administrative data work presented at Addis Tax Initiative West Africa workshop
    27 July 2022 – 28 July 2022
    Lilygate hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
    Past event
    Blog
    Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
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    ‘I intend to see a world in which tax policy research is based on evidence, and policy decisions are data-driven.’ This is an aspiration expressed by...

    Background Note
    Expanding a wage subsidy during lockdown

    Introduction The South African youth wage subsidy started in 2014 to increase employment and create jobs for low-wage youth. The subsidy was temporarily raised in value and expanded to reach more workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the...

    Project
    Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data

    Theme: Transforming states

    Working Paper
    The guide to the CIT-IRP5 panel version 4.0

    This paper presents version 4.0 of the CIT-IRP5 firm-level panel dataset. Version 4.0 is the latest edition of the firm-level component of the combined administrative data using sources from the South African Revenue Service. We show that differences...

    Workshop
    STATA intermediate course for revenue authorities

    A new 3-day Stata Intermediate training course is provided to 21 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at revenue authorities and research institutes in Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The course is prepared and presented by...

    6 October 2021 – 8 October 2021
    online
    Past event
    Working Paper
    The effects of a risk-based approach to tax examinations

    While technical assistance and increased use of ICT in the area of tax administration have been regarded to hold considerable promise for greater revenue collection, the evidence on how these activities work in the real-world circumstances of...

    Working Paper
    Estimating employment responses to South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive

    We 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. We show that attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional...

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