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    The richer your neighbours, the more you borrow – the case of South Africa
    Shakeba Foster - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    Research on how income inequality affects borrowing behaviour reignited after the 2008 global recession. One prevailing theory is that rising income inequality in the US and other high-income economies eroded real household incomes and prompted more and more borrowing. This growing debt culminated...
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    Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector
    – Examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa
    Shakeba Foster - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, it analyses flows between the formal sector, informal sector, and unemployment, paying specific attention to how these flows differ during recessions. It explicitly considers...
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    The South African personal income tax base, 2011–2018
    – Income and taxable income, adjusted for retirement fund and medical expense reporting changes
    Andrew R. Donaldson - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    Tax administration statistics now provide considerably more complete and reliable measures of South African personal income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using tax data across time, as both policy and reporting changes...
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    A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for South Africa with occupational and capital stock detail
    Dirk van Seventer, Rob Davies - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    This technical note describes the compilation of a 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for South Africa. SAMs are economy-wide databases that are used together with analytical techniques to strengthen evidence-based policy analysis. This SAM is based on a supply table and a use table for 2019...
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    Income inequality and household debt
    – Examining the impact of relative income on formal and informal debt in South Africa
    Shakeba Foster - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper assesses this question using the two most recent waves of the South African Living Conditions Survey. A range of linear models as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and...
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    Pay inequality is high in South Africa
    – Bosses are part of the problem
    Ihsaan Bassier -
    South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. This income inequality is mostly due to high unemployment and large differences in wages. In South Africa today, economists and policymakers typically focus on worker characteristics such as education to address wage inequality...
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    South Africa: employment and inequality trends
    Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morné Oosthuizen, Amy Thornton - Oxford University Press , 2023 - Oxford
    From the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
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    Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
    The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa
    – A view from below
    Simone Schotte, Rocco Zizzamia - Social Indicators Research , 2023
    This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy measures on livelihoods in urban South Africa. Using qualitative research methods, we analyse two rounds of semi-structured phone interviews, conducted between June and September 2020 in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape...
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    A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa
    – Individual impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive
    Amina Ebrahim, Jukka Pirttilä - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    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 relative to two comparison groups: slightly older...
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    The effect of wage subsidies on job retention
    – Evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Timothy Köhler, Robert Hill, Haroon Bhorat - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Wage subsidies have served as a primary labour market policy used around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, where unemployment is among the highest globally, the Temporary Employer–Employee Relief Scheme supported millions of workers in a far...
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    Physical proximity and occupational employment change by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Jacqueline Mosomi, Amy Thornton - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Previous economic downturns such as the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g., manufacturing). However, after the imposition of the ‘hard’ COVID-19 lockdown between 2020 quarter 1 and 2 in...
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    Determinants of corporate cash holdings in South Africa
    Ewa Karwowski, Hanna Szymborska, Keagile Lesame, Tlhologelo Thoka - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Globally, corporate cash holdings have risen since the 1980s. In South Africa, some commentators have accused corporations of engaging in an ‘investment strike’, while others see corporate liquidity as a precaution against systemic uncertainty. We use the unique South African Revenue Service...
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    Participation of charity beneficiaries
    Daniel Grieco, Francesco Bripi - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , 2022
    Anecdotal evidence suggests that involving beneficiaries in charity decision-making ensures better governance processes. This study provides the first experimental test of the effects of beneficiaries’ participation in the decision of how to spend a charity's funds. We consider four different...
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    Social distress and (some) relief
    – Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
    Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Maya Goldman - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty estimates, simulating incomes in pre-pandemic household surveys...
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    Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
    Amina Ebrahim - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    ‘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 a participant of the WIDER Winter School 2022. The comment summarizes well the reasoning behind the course and UNU-WIDER’s goals for domestic revenue...
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    Snakes and ladders and loaded dice
    – Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017
    Simone Schotte, Rocco Zizzamia, Murray Leibbrandt - South African Journal of Economics , 2022
    Longitudinal surveys allow us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage determine present material welfare and economic upward or downward mobility over time. In this paper, we use five waves of panel data to empirically assess the extent and dynamics of poverty in South Africa between 2008 and...
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