Poverty and inequality in South Africa: critical reflections

D Francis, E Webster - Development Southern Africa, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
South Africa is a paradox; on the one hand, it is one of the most unequal countries in the
world. Half of all South Africans continue to live in poverty, economic growth has stagnated …

Job search and hiring with limited information about workseekers' skills

E Carranza, R Garlick, K Orkin, N Rankin - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Abstract We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment
results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving …

“Job Search and Hiring With Two-Sided Limited Information About Workseekers' Skills

E Carranza, R Garlick, K Orkin, N Rankin - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills
distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving …

Revisiting poverty, human development and inequality in democratic South Africa

V Gumede - Indian Journal of Human Development, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
There are many questions related to poverty in South Africa that remain unsatisfactorily
answered. Given the poor performance of the South African economy, including declining …

[图书][B] Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa

H Bhorat, K Lilenstein, M Oosthuizen, A Thornton - 2020 - econstor.eu
This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South
Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa

H Bhorat, F Steenkamp, C Rooney… - Industries without …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
The rapid transformation of many of the East Asian economies, including China, has been
driven by a process of secondary industry growth, within which the core lever has been the …

[图书][B] Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa

H Bhorat, K Lilenstein, M Oosthuizen, A Thornton - 2020 - econstor.eu
Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings
percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized …

[图书][B] Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

C Loewald, K Makrelov, A Wörgötter - 2021 - researchgate.net
South Africa's stubbornly low labour utilisation rate is an international outlier and a heavy
brake on the ambitions for growth and redistribution published in various strategic policy …

Poverty in South Africa

V Gumede - The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy, 2021 - books.google.com
Prior to democracy, poverty was extremely high in South Africa and mainly Africans or the
Black population group experienced poverty. It is a given that poverty (and inequality) …

Production and sales risks in the manufacturing sector: The role of electricity supply, inflation and fuel price volatility

T Habanabakize… - International Journal of …, 2021 - search.proquest.com
The manufacturing sector occupies a critical position in the South African economy.
However, in recent decades this sector experienced significant instability due to challenges …