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Working paper
Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time...
March, 2019
Labour market and inequality
In the media
A new working paper from the SA-TIED programme on the costs of substituting coal-fired power with renewable energy in order to meet global goals on climate change has made headlines in South Africa. The first...
Climate and energy
Working paper
An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity firms...
December 2021
Enterprise development
Working paper
Monetary policy is believed to have a disproportionate effect on firms depending on their size. Financially constrained firms with limited access to capital markets are expected to be more sensitive to changes in interest rates...
March, 2019
Macro-fiscal analysis
News
Young people are at the forefront of efforts to bring about change in society. They are passionate about and committed to actions which will improve their livelihoods and those of future generations in Africa. For...
June 2020
Working paper
The paper examines the underlying constraints impacting micro-enterprise growth within South African townships. The understanding broadly provides a finer and more granular understanding of the microeconomic constraints to economic growth and employment generation in South...
August 2022
Labour market and inequality
Working paper
In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana...
July 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
In the media
During a speech to parliament on Thursday, South Africa’s Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, discussed the important work being carried out by the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme. Mboweni highlighted the achievements...
May 2021
Enterprise development
Public revenue
Labour market and inequality
Macro-fiscal analysis
Climate and energy
Reform implementation
News
Today, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni highlighted an initiative that aims to promote inclusive economic growth in the region through evidence-based policy creation. Mboweni’s comments came during his maiden Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament. He...
24 October 2018
Working paper
In this paper, the energy and economic models used in the linked modelling approach for South Africa are further refined such that (i) links between coal mines and markets are included; (ii) economic and energy...
October 2019
Climate and energy
Events
28 May 2018 / 10:00
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On 28 May to 1 June, University of Tampere, VATT Institute for Economic Research, and UCFS at Uppsala University , jointly host a doctoral course on public economics. Under the SA-TIED project, selected SARS and...
Working paper
This paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS). A series of statistical adjustments are proposed, compared, and...
March 2020
Macro-fiscal analysis
Technical workshop
16 Apr 2019 / 10:00
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17 Apr 2019 / 18:00
Macro-fiscal analysis
SA-TIED research specialists in statistics, quantitative analysis, and econometrics, from the workstream on macroeconomic modelling for policy formulation , will host a two day workshop in Pretoria, South Africa at the National Treasury. The workshop...
Working paper
This paper presents an alternative methodology to modelling private transport in the hard-linked energy-economic model, SATIMGE. The methodology considers a shift from total fuel consumption in the economic model to end-use energy consumption for the...
June 2020
Climate and energy
Working paper
This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South African labour market. The Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (AKM) and Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten (KSS) regression-based...
October 2023
Labour market and inequality
Working paper
This study evaluates the determinants of adoption and use intensity of organic fertilizer among smallholder potato farmers using primary data collected from 189 smallholder farmers in three municipal areas in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, using...
September 2020
Climate and energy