Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data
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...
Workshop
Scoping workshop on Establishment of an Enterprise Monitoring Programme in South Africa
The purpose of the workshop is to engage with policymakers and academics with relevant experience, to draw on their knowledge to advise and assist in addressing the various challenges associated with firm level dynamics. This session will seek to...
Mon, 9 December 2013
TIPS | Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies,
227 Lange St,
Pretoria,
South Africa
Past event
Video
Regional Growth and Development in Southern Africa project - an interview with Channing Arndt
Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER, outlines the main research areas for this project on economic growth in the Southern African region. The project has two main elements – one specifically on the South African economy; the second on...
Journal Article
Learning by Exporting
Part of Journal Special Issue
Learning to Compete
Working Paper
Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exporters
This paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa. We disentangle labour market differences between exporters and non-exporters and find that exporters employ more people and pay...
Working Paper
Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market
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...
Working Paper
Wage inequality, firm characteristics, and firm wage premia in South Africa
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...