E26 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: E26

Informal Economy; Underground Economy

Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Timothy Köhler

Podcast

The effect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous findings, present-day e...

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

This paper estimates a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve for South ...

Nicola Viegi, Vincent Dadam

Working Paper

“Sometimes you don't make enough to buy food” - an analysis of South African street was...

In this paper we use income data of 873 street waste pickers in Sou...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Working Paper

Sometimes you don’t make enough money to buy food: An analysis of South African street ...

One of the aims of the National Development Plan (NDP) is the eradi...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Policy Brief

“I would rather have a decent job”: Barriers preventing street waste pickers from impro...

As a result of the high levels of unemployment in South Africa many...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck

Working Paper

Effects of reducing tariffs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): A CGE analysis

In this paper, the effects of reducing tariffs are analysed through...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Land use in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

This paper examines the effects of land use in the DRC through the ...

Bonga B. Lumengo, Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi

Working Paper

Wage subsidy in the DRC: A CGE analysis

This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers ...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Stokvels as an instrument and channel to extend credit to poor households in South Afri...

Policy Paper 19 A stokvel can in general terms be defined as an umb...

Polly Mashigo, Christie Schoeman

Policy Paper

Tax evasion and financial repression: A reconsideration using endogenous growth models

Using two dynamic monetary general equilibrium models characterized...

Rangan Gupta, Emmanuel Ziramba

Working Paper