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Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...

Working Paper 886 The study investigates the potential welfare effe...

Nicky Nicholls, Kehinde O. Omotoso, Eleni Yitbarek, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

Place-based economic policies: international lessons for South Africa

Discussion Document 11 Place-based policies are designed to support...

Harris Selod, Claus Rabe

Discussion Document

How would providing UBI impact structural poverty?

This podcast adopts a refreshing view on what Universal Basic Incom...

Margaux Giannaros, Zimbali Mncube, Kelle Howson

Podcast

Can a universal basic income contribute to breaking structural poverty in South Africa?

Discussion Document 03 Much of the debate about the introduction of...

Zimbali Mncube, Kelle Howson

Discussion Document

Small rise in employment is nothing to celebrate

Consensus is emerging that unemployment, inequality and poverty req...

Isaah Mhlanga

Business Day

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

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...

Margaux Giannaros, Timothy Köhler

Podcast

Bridging the Divide in Economics

The ERSA Bridging the Divide in Economics initiative focuses on rep...

ERSA

BTD Workshop

Impact of technological progress on carbon emissions in different country income groups

This study examines the complex relationship between carbon emissio...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Chris B. Milindi

Working Paper

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

The 1918 influenza – the Spanish ﬂu – killed an estimated 6% of Sou...

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

A fiscus for better economic and social development in South Africa

After showing that the bulk of government expenditure is unproducti...

Francois J. Stofberg, Jan H. van Heerden, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Working Paper

Monetary policy and inequality

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

Redistribution, Inequality, and Efficiency with Credit Constraints

We develop a model that characterizes the joint determination of in...

Yoseph Y. Getachew, Stephen J. Turnovsky

Working Paper

Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?

Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile tel...

South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with a Gini ...

Ryan Hawthrone, Lukasz Grzybowski

Policy Brief

Benefits of regulation vs competition where inequality is high: The case of mobile tele...

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in t...

Ryan Hawthrone, Lukasz Grzybowski

Working Paper

The Role of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption on Income-related Inequality in Health in S...

In many developing countries, there is wide inequality in the distr...

Hana Ross, Corné van Walbeek, Alfred K. Mukong

Policy Brief

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes

Inequality is a problem which has beset South Africa for a long tim...

Biniam E. Bedasso, Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vert...

Nonso Obikili, Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Effects of wildlife resources on community welfare: Income, poverty and inequality

This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Herbert Ntuli

Working Paper

Estimating Income Mobility When Income is Measured with Error: The Case of South Africa

There are long-standing concerns that household income mobility is ...

Asmus Zoch, Stephan Klasen, Rulof P. Burger

Working Paper

The Contribution of Fiscal Decentralization to Regional Inequality: Empirical Results f...

Over the past two decades, many African countries have carried out ...

Ramos Mabugu, Hammed Amusa

Policy Brief

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

Addressing structural change issues in the context of South Africa's political dispensa...

The current structure of South Africa’s economy is partly a product...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Begging the Question: Permanent Income and Social Mobility

The extent of social mobility is one of three key considerations &#...

Sean Muller

Working Paper

Free public healtcare does not remove inequality of healthcare access

Despite the availability in South Africa of free public health care...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief