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Industrialisation and the decline of the coastal cities in South Africa: A neglected dimension
(Development Southern Africa, 1990-05)Empirical evidence points to a mismatch between the growth of population and the growth of manufacturing activity among the metropolitan centres of South Africa. While the coastal metropoles lag behind the PWV and certain ... -
Reflecting on Racial Discrimination in the Post-Apartheid South African Labour Market
(University if Cape Town, 2004-12)During the 20th century, South Africa’s economy became increasingly ordered and controlled along racial lines. Since the official demise of apartheid in 1994, the State has implemented various policies aimed at redress. In ... -
Educational attainment and intergenerational social mobility in SA
(World Bank Group, 2005)To a large degree, the notoriously high levels of income inequality in\nSouth Africa have their roots in differential access to wage-earning opportunities in the labour market, which in turn are influenced by family ... -
Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition
(Elsevier, 2006)Using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of ... -
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(South African Reserve Bank, 2006)Recent research on South African labour-market trends has suggested that workers have, on average, experienced a substantial decrease in their real wage earnings in the post-apartheid era. This paper will show that ... -
Interrelations among stock prices of South Africa and the United States and the rand/dollar exchange rate
(Stellenbosch University, 2007)This paper seeks to examine the dynamic short-term causal relations and the long-term equilibrium relations between the two major financial assets, stock prices of the US and South Africa and the rand/US$ exchange rate. ... -
A series of national accounts-consistent estimates of poverty and inequality in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2007)This paper makes a unique contribution to the South African literature in combining data from an alternative source of household survey data – the All Media and Product Survey (AMPS) – with national accounts income trends ... -
Crime and HIV/AIDS in the Western Cape: business support organizations and business owners' perceptions
(Academic Journals, 2007)Economic growth will be severely curtailed if crime and HIV/AIDS is not effectively dealt with. Despite the fact that the business support organizations and the SMME owners are dissatisfied with the crime situation, the ... -
Forecasting volatility in sub-Saharan Africa’s commodity markets
(Business Perspectives, 2007)Using spot prices from eighteen commodities traded by most Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper evaluates the out-of-sample volatility forecasting efficiency of seven models. The models evaluated included random walk, ... -
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(University of Cape Town, 2007)This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to ... -
What explains the academic success of second-year economics students? An exploratory analysis
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)The factors influencing academic success of first-year Economics students have received much attention from researchers. Very little attention, however, has been given to the determinants of success of senior Economics ... -
The South African informal sector (1997 – 2006)
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)According to the 2006 September Labour Force Survey, approximately 22% of the employed (excluding domestic workers and agricultural employment) are engaged in informal sector activities as their main work to sustain ... -
Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)Before the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been using the same methodology to derive the informal sector employment throughout the years, focusing ... -
How invariant is South African child poverty to the choice of equivalence scale or poverty measure?
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the Adult Equivalence Scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. ... -
The comparability of labour force survey (LFS) and quarterly labour force survey (QLFS)
(Stellenbosch University, 2009)Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been collecting labour market data since 1993 with the October Household Survey (OHS), which was conducted annually between 1993 and 1999, as well as the Labour Force Survey (LFS), ... -
Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ... -
Factors explaining the academic success of second-year economics students: an exploratory analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)Factors influencing the academic success of first-year economics students have been intensely researched. Lecture and tutorial attendance, age, gender, as well as matriculation results have been identified as significant ... -
Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance
(UNISA Press, 2011)The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ... -
Challenges for quality primary education in Papua New Guinea — a case study
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)There is an urgent need to reform the educational system to achieve universal primary education in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Even after 35 years of independence, PNG has been struggling to educate an estimated 2 million ... -
Improving the targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value added tax (VAT) in South Africa - An exploratory analysis
(Stellenbosch University, 2012)VAT without any exemptions or zero-rating is regressive. Since the inception of VAT in South Africa, there has been an ongoing debate around the issue of zero-rating to alleviate the burden on poor households. This paper ...
