Research Brief

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...

• Tax administration data
• Firm-level analysis
• Firm behaviour

Working Paper

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...

• Wage inequality
• Wage premium
• Firm-level analysis

Working Paper

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...

• Tax administration data
• Firm-level analysis
• Firm behaviour

Journal Special Issue

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...

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Economic policy

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• Data
• South Africa

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

• Firm-level analysis
• South Africa
• Data

Working Paper

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...

• Administrative data
• Tax
• Firm-level analysis

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete

• Firm-level analysis
• Learning spillovers
• Exports

Blog

by Shakeba Foster January 2024

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...

• Labour
• South Africa
• Firm-level analysis

Working Paper

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...

• Exporters
• Firm-level analysis
• Labour demand

Research Brief

• Mozambique
• Formalization
• Firm-level analysis

Research Brief

• Mozambique
• Formalization
• Firm-level analysis