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Book Chapter
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From the book:
Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
Book Chapter
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– South Africa’s Kuznetsian tension
From the book:
The Developer’s Dilemma
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– The case of South Africa
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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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before entering a period of premature deindustrialization...
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We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on...
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– A policy synthesis
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Journal Article
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– An analysis with administrative data
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Journal Article
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– New insights from using SARS administrative data
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Journal Article
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– New evidence from South Africa
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
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.
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
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.
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
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.
– Firm level analysis with administrative data
Part of Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Journal Special Issue
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
This special issue focuses on a collaborative effort between the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to employ administrative record data from SARS for economic policy analysis. It contains six research articles plus a synthesis article designed to draw out potential...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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