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Employment Scenarios: How Do Sources of Job Creation Matter? First Draft Employment Scenarios
This paper explores some basic elements that need consideration in building employment scenarios from the demand side.
Manufacturing Employment and Import Dependence
This paper considers some aspects of South Africa’s manufacturing sector that are relevant for assessing its employment-generating potential.
Evidence-Based Employment Scenarios. Exchange Rate and Employment Project: Overview
This paper briefly summarises the HSRC’s project to investigate the relationship between the exchange rate and employment outcomes, and possible policy implications.
Low Wage Work in South Africa
This paper offers some initial thoughts about the emerging character of the ‘working poor’ in South Africa, and the implications for economic policy. The theme is particularly relevant for economies...
International Experience with Worker-side and Employer-side Wage and Employment Subsidies, and Job Search Assistance Programmes: Implications for South Africa
The purpose of this international policy review is first to provide a summary of international experience with labour market interventions that were developed with the intention of improving employment, particularly...
Formal-informal Economy Linkages: Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues
This paper aims to develop a framework for thinking about how the linkages between the formal and informal economies may be enhanced. We begin by providing a conceptual schema for...
The Job-creating Potential of the Metered Taxi Industry in South Africa’s Urban Areas: Some Preliminary Findings
This paper provides a general introduction to the metered taxi industry and its potential to grow and absorb labour.
Business Process Outsourcing in Identified Financial Services Sub-Sectors – The Potential for Offshore Business Flows into South Africa and Consequent Recommendations for Targeted Government Support
This paper is concerned with the potential for offshore BPO in South Africa and provides proposals for supporting offshore BPO in the asset management and related sub-sectors.
Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?
This paper describes how the Beveridgean pension scheme invariably reduces the marginal return to labour, and thus discourages labour.
The Economics of Pensions
This paper has a two-fold purpose. It sets out the economic analytics of pensions without discussion of empirical magnitudes and outside the context of any particular country, with the intention...
The Federal Thrift Savings Plan: A Model for The Private Sector?
This resource provides background on the Federal Thrift Savings Plan. A resource by the Investment Company Institute (ICI).
Impact of Transport Pricing in South Africa on Freight Transport Costs
Freight transport cost is one of the core factors that determine product prices. It thus has a direct impact on the competitive advantage of South African goods in local and...
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