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Working paper
Low levels of broadband penetration combined with poor quality of services present a challenge to growth and development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This paper performs a comparative analysis of the competitive dynamics...
June 2020
Phase 1 regional growth
In the media
On 31 January, the SA-TIED programme hosted a research results meeting and a poster presentation by SA-TIED's Young Scholars in Pretoria, South Africa. The day started with a very fruitful conversation on tackling unemployment and...
1 February, 2019
Working paper
Technical change impacts both the employment intensity of production and the composition of occupations and skills of employment. Artificial intelligence, automation, and robots are already leading to machines undertaking routinizable tasks previously carried out by...
October 2020
Macro-fiscal analysis
In the media
Economist, and researcher under the work stream on climate change and energy , Faaiqa Hartley was interviewed by Knowable Magazine on her recent SA-TIED working paper Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries...
January 28, 2020
Climate and energy
Working paper
This paper examines the relationship between monetary policy and wealth inequality in South Africa. We employed a unique database of tax administrative data which allowed us to account for individual heterogeneity. These tax data span...
December 2020
Macro-fiscal analysis
Blog
Most jobs right out of university are either filled with busy work or too much work—very little time is available for gaining new skills. This early career period is arguably the most important time for...
April 2021
Working paper
This paper uses firm-level data and a news-based measure of economic policy uncertainty to provide empirical evidence that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa.
March 2021
Macro-fiscal analysis
Working paper
The falling cost of renewable energy technologies globally is a key driver of the implementation of smallscale embedded generation in South Africa as an alternative to electricity from the national grid. The technology has disruptive...
May 2018
Climate and energy
Events
27 Jul 2024 / 02:59
A presentation by Nzinga H. Broussard is delivered at the National Treasury of South Africa. The presentation discusses the effects that immigration has had on labour market outcomes of native-born black South Africans using South...
Working paper
There is a large literature on the minimum wage focused on directly exposed firms and geographies. This paper provides new evidence that the minimum wage has significant spillover effects on firms exposed to the minimum...
June 2021
Enterprise development
Working paper
This paper documents the construction of a South African Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2015. The SAM is built using a Statistics South Africa (Stats SA, 2018) Supply Table (ST) and Use Table...
March, 2019
Macro-fiscal analysis
Events
8 Mar 2019 / 11:00
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8 Mar 2018 / 12:00
As a part of the SA-TIED Seminar Series, Professor Carol Newman will present the research findings of her team's work on the impact of resource misallocation on total factor productivity within and between firms in...
Working paper
This paper analyses the macroeconomic effect of legislated personal income tax changes in South Africa over the 1996–2019 period. We identify personal income tax shocks using a narrative approach and incorporate these shocks in a...
October 2021
Working paper
In the study, I use the Boone indicator to explore competition dynamics in the South African loan market. Using a standard pooled OLS estimation, I find that competition in the loan market has been improving...
March, 2019
Macro-fiscal analysis
Research seminar
14 Aug 2023 / 10:00
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16 Aug 2023 / 18:00
The IIPF, a worldwide organization of public finance economists, will encompass approximately 750 members from over 50 countries. Within an increasingly specialized academic landscape, the IIPF will continue to foster intellectual exchanges among experts in...
Report
The low rail market share for general freight and passenger transport along South Africa’s long corridors negatively impacts the cost of logistics, restricts economic growth, and underutilizes rail capacity. Opportunities exist to technically improve capacity...
April 2022