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Trends on the hours worked of the employed, 1997 – 2011
(ECONOMIC RESEARCH SOUTHERN AFRICA, 2012)
This paper analyses trends in hours worked from South African household survey data for the period 1997 — 2011. The purpose of the paper is fourfold. First, the paper provides an overview on the trends in hours worked of ...
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), ...
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 ...
Investigating factors influencing class attendance and performance of first-year economics students
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)
The academic success of first-year Economics students has been examined in many South
African studies in Economic Education. These studies controlled for differences in demographic
characteristics, last school examination ...
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa
(Routledge, 2021)
This study uses the Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data,
adopts the Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty index (MPI)
approach and addresses numerous shortcomings of the original
Statistics South Africa method ...
Money channel of monetary policy transmission in Namibia
(The Institute for International Economics, 2020)
There is an argument that being in an exchange rate pegging arrangement limits the scope of
using interest rate to control money supply to affect output or inflation but here is a point of
contention in the case of ...
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey
(Wiley, 2021)
Detailed empirical work on the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on food security is scant. Local management of food security has received little attention.This article describes emergency food policies in Wuhan
and Nanjing, ...
Cyclicality of size, value, and momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)
The study examines the cyclical behaviour of style premiums on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over the period 2002–2018. More specifically, the study establishes whether there is a contemporaneous relationship between ...
Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys
(Taylor & Francis group, 2016)
The South African existing literature on poverty mainly adopted the
money-metric approach to examine poverty levels and trends since
the advent of democracy. In general, poverty increased until the end
of the 1990s, ...