Abstract [Excerpt] It is widely recognized that competitive private enterprise is the principal
source of economic growth and wealth globally and makes a substantial contribution to …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

Using household and labour force survey data from 11 developing countries, the authors
calculate rates of minimum wage compliance for formal/informal employees covered by …

The fraction of workers currently covered by minimum wages in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is
small, but as formality and urbanization increase, wage regulation will become increasingly …

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa.
Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail …

This study examines the impact of an unanticipated consequence of minimum wage hikes
on firms' pollution emissions in China by exploiting policy discontinuities at county borders to …

The very high level of informal labour in Colombia is a symptom of the labour market is not
functioning properly. Moreover, this undesirable outcome is highly heterogeneous across …

This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral
minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage floors in Italy …

The distinction between de jure and de facto regulation is well understood in theory, but has
rarely been applied to cross‐country empirical work on the impact of labour regulation on …

Against the backdrop of post-Apartheid neoliberal reform, South African landowners have
gained the option to acquire full ownership over wild animals on their land. Corresponding …