According to South Africa’s National Development Plan Vision 2030, serious action needs to be taken to reduce poverty and encourage economic growth. One of the main challenges involves reducing the unemployment rates in South Africa, particularly...
This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South African labour market. The Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (AKM) and Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten (KSS) regression-based decomposition...
Through the use of administrative tax data, this study attempts to identify the characteristics of firms that employ relatively large numbers of young people. The policy objective of this exercise is to use these insights to inform policy and...
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...
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Labour market analysis in the South African context provides a relatively robust understanding of the individual characteristics that influence wage differentials across workers (i.e. supply-side characteristics), but provides relatively little...
South Africa ranks as the world’s most unequal country by income. This is largely due to high wage inequality, given that wages are the main income...
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