Research Publications: Recent submissions
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A panel data analysis of the formal-informal sector labour market linkages in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)This study explores the labour market linkages between the informal and formal sectors, using the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study data. The main focus is on three groups of employed: worked in the ... -
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism
(SAGE, 2021)In this article, I examine normative assumptions about cash transfers as public goods and the lived experience of cash transfers as private debts. Policy makers and social scientists often assume cash transfers are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Protecting the standardised patient in TB scenarios: The South African study
(2019)SPs used in TB scenarios experience repeated exposure to TB in high risk settings. Exposure for each TB standardised patient.an average of 2.5 hours per facility - at least 19 times - over a five-week period.Public ... -
Patient perceptions of the quality of health services in South Africa quality management conference (in association with COHSASA)
(2018)Patient perceptions of quality drives acceptability of health services (Penchansky and Thomas, 1981). ▪ Services not acceptable less likely to return for follow-up, less likely to seek healthcare, more likely to access ... -
Measuring quality gaps in TB screening in South Africa using standardised patient analysis
(MPDI, 2018)This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices ... -
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 ... -
Exploring ways to improve health system performance in developing countries
(Taylor & Francis group, 2012)This lively collection of articles investigating the challenges faced by health systems in developing countries is a welcome addition to the current health literature. Writing from a non-technical perspective, the authors ... -
Patient predictors of health-seeking behaviour for persons coughing for more than two weeks in high-burden tuberculosis communities: The case of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2019)This study aimed to analyse the patient predictors of health-seeking behaviour for persons coughing for more than 2 weeks to better understand this vulnerable and important population.The study analysed data from a cohort ... -
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, ... -
Examining the causal relationship between private sector credit extended and economic growth in Namibia
(PKP, 2019)The paper examined causality between Private Sector Credit Extension (PSCE) and Economic growth using quarterly data for the period 2000:Q1-2017:Q4, in Namibia. The variables employed were Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Institutional arrangements for Knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation in G2G partnerships
(ProQuest, 2018)Knowledge management (KM) is a well-established management approach that is applied across public sector, civil society (and corporate sectors in future) by systematically creating, preserving and optimally utilising the ... -
The comparability of the statistics South Africa October household surveys and labour force surveys
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been collecting labour market data with household surveys and in a fairly comparable format since 1993. These datasets have been studied and compared extensively in order to better ... -
Namibian foreign exchange market: The degree of sterilisation
(Asian Online Journals, 2013)This paper examines the size of the degree of sterilization in Namibia. The study uses the ordinary least squares method to estimate the regression based on monthly data covering the period 2000:01 to 2013:03. The variables, ...