J24 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: J24

Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

Human capital and the timing of the first birth

This paper constructs and partially characterizes the solution of a...

Jesse Naidoo

Working Paper

College Major Choice, Spatial Inequality and Elite Formation: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the determinants of college major choice in the...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Optimal Monetary Policy with Learning by Doing

I study the implications of learning by doing in production for opt...

Chris Redl

Working Paper

The Effects of Teacher Strike Activity on Student Learning in South African Primary Sch...

This paper investigates whether teacher strikes affect student achi...

Gabrielle Wills

Policy Brief

Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western N...

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colo...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Happy in the Informal Economy? A Case Study of Well-Being Among Day Labourers in South ...

Past research provided evidence of the negative effect that individ...

Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck, Ilse Botha, Christie Schoeman

Working Paper

Micro-evidence on day labourers and the thickness of labour markets in South Africa

The South African labour market is characterised by sharp segmentat...

Waldo F. Krugell, Phillip F. Blaauw

Working Paper

English Language Proficiency and Earnings in a Developing Country: The Case of South Af...

In this paper we explore the relationship between English language ...

Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale

Working Paper

Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?

This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in th...

Ssekabira Ntege, Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Does training benefit those who do not get any? Elasticities of complementarity and fac...

Commentators claim a shortage of skills, particularly artisanal lab...

Alberto Behar

Working Paper

Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analy...

Murray Leibbrandt, David Lam, Cally Ardington

Working Paper

The role of human and social capital: Extending our understanding

Policy Paper (Interest) 11 Human capital, institutions and social c...

Barbara Piazza-Georgi

Policy Paper

Technology, human capital, growth and institutional development: Lessons from endogenou...

Policy Paper (Interest) 13 This paper provides a discursive review ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper