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- Petersson, Lennart
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Export diversification and intra-industry trade in South Africa
- 2005
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280 .- 1813-6982. ; 73:4, s. 785-802
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper uses cumulative export experience functions to explore the structural dynamics of South Africa's exports for the period 1990-2003. It finds a large spread of emerging non-traditional accelerating export products across industry clusters of different factor intensifies, steadily increasing their proportion in total exports and her main markets. Shift-share and correlation analyses show that increased intra-industry specialisation and trade within import competing product groups explain the structural change in the direction of export diversity. With respect to quality, as measured by relative unit prices of exports and imports in intra-industry trade with the EU and the US, a relative improvement of export quality is found.
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- Stage, Jesper
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Decomposition of Namibian energy intensity
- 2001
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280 .- 1813-6982. ; 69:4, s. 698-707
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- Gwaindepi, Abel, et al.
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Public sector growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence from new data on expenditure and foreign debt, 1830-1910
- 2020
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280 .- 1813-6982. ; 88:3, s. 342-367
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AbstractThe public expenditure shifts that took place following the discovery of diamonds and gold during the second half of the nineteenth century had far-reaching consequences for southern Africa’s development. Using new data for public expenditure and foreign debt in the Cape Colony and evidence from Cape parliamentary budget debates, we trace and explain the growth of the publicsector. We find that the coincidence of mineral discovery in 1867 and the granting of responsible government status rapidly accelerated the growth of the public sector. Owing to strong mining interests, railways accounted for more than 70% of the public works expenditure from the 1880s onwards. Spending on human capital and welfare enhancement remained limited. Both the quantitative and qualitative evidence suggests that the mining elites managed to build coalitions that swayed public expenditure decisions towards self-serving ends.JEL Classification: H5, H54, H63, N17, F54Keywords:
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- Heshmati, Almas, et al.
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Hiring and separation rates before and after the Arab Spring in the Tunisian labor market
- 2017
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0038-2280 .- 1813-6982. ; 85:2, s. 259-278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We seek to explore the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring based on quarterly business level data for 503 firms over the span of January 2007 to December 2012. Furthermore, we examine whether employers are willing to dismiss older workers to trigger an effective increase in mobility that will open new opportunities for the youth community. We build our analysis upon six main empirical models to study employment decisions reflected by major indicators such as the number of hiring, number of separations, total employment effects, male-female ratio, age cohorts, labour mobility and net employment. The results show that the Arab Spring has created structural unemployment trends. In addition, we note that the 2008 global turmoil has fostered the firing level of employment. Our conclusions also indicate that the response of Tunisia's government to high unemployment rates caused by the financial meltdown in 2008 and the events in 2011 was not sufficient to remove the attached lingering effects that still distress the country's labour market. In addition, our findings emphasize the significant challenges faced by Tunisian youth that could be mitigated by efficient policy actions to incentivize training and development geared towards the private sector.
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- Adu, George, et al.
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Determinants of inflation in Ghana: an empirial investigation
- 2011
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280. ; 79, s. 251-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper provides an empirical analysis of the factors accounting for inflation dynamics in Ghana using the bounds test and other econometric approaches.We find that real output, nominal exchange rate, broad money supply, nominal interest rate and fiscal deficit play a dominant role in the inflationary process in Ghana. To the extent that output growth by far has the strongest impact on inflation, targeting supply-side constraints will help moderate price inflation. The paper concludes that inflation in Ghana is explained by a combination of structural and monetary factors consistent with prior studies
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- Cilliers, Jeanne, et al.
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Occupational mobility during South Africa's industrial take-off
- 2018
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280. ; 86:1, s. 3-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the absence of historical income or education data, the change in occupations over time can be used as a measure of mobility. This paper investigates intergenerational occupational mobility using a novel genealogical dataset for settler South Africa, spanning its transition from an agricultural to an early industrialised society (1800-1909). We identify fathers and sons for whom we have complete information on occupational attainment. We follow a two-generation discrete approach to measure changes in both absolute and relative mobility over time. Consistent with qualitative evidence of a shift away from agriculture as the economy’s dominant sector, we see the farming class shrinking and the skilled and professional classes growing. Controlling for changes in the structure of the labour market over time, we find increasing mobility, becoming significant after the discovery of minerals in 1868. We find this mobility particularly for semiskilled workers but virtually no improved mobility for sons of farmers. We also test hypotheses related to the mobility prospects for first-born sons and sons of immigrants.
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- Congdon Fors, Heather, 1975
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Citizens' Support for Economic Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2016
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Ingår i: South African Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0038-2280. ; 84:3, s. 343-363
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence citizens' support for costly economic reforms in sub-Saharan Africa. This is relevant for several reasons, but the most obvious perhaps is that economic reform will be difficult if faced by strong resistance from citizens. In this paper, individual data from Round 4 of the Afrobarometer surveys is used to investigate how support for economic reforms is influenced by factors falling under the following broad categories: (i) Economic variables; (ii) group identity and fairness variables; (iii) Institutional and state/government variables; (iv) Demographic and control variables. An individual's trust in the president and the belief that the government manages the economy well are two of the most significant and robust factors. This is in keeping with the results found in Williamson (The Political Economy of Policy Reform, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 1994). Another robustly significant variable is satisfaction with how democracy works in the country. Variables related to ethnic identity and community membership also play a significant role in support for costly economic reforms, which is in line with the theories put forward by van de Walle (African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001). Females are less likely to support economic reforms, while individuals with higher levels of education are more likely to support economic reforms.
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