Macro-Economic Impact of HIV and AIDS on the Zimababwean Economy: A Human Capital Approach
by MATSHE, I, 2008Botswana Journal of Economics Volume 5. No.7, October, 2008
Zimbabwe is one of the countries severely affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The high prevalence of the disease is not only a health problem but has become an economic problem, yet little effort had previously been directed at establishing the exact magnitude of HIV/AIDS’ economic impact. Using a human capital approach which measures the value…
read more >>Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
by WOOLARD, I. & KLAASEN, S. , 2004Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Discussion paper series, No. 1030
Woolard and Klaasen analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in South Africa. This finding is robust when measurement error is controlled for. When…
read more >>Sectoral Elasticity of Substitution and Returns to Scale in South Africa
by GEBRESELASIE, G, 2008South African Journal of Economics Vol. 76:S2 August 2008
Elasticity of substitution and returns to scale are estimated on a sectoral basis for South Africa using panel-based generalised least square procedure. Apart from sectoral differences in terms of elasticity of substitution, the study found that elasticity of substitution is below unity in all of the sectors. Most of the sectors studied are found to…
read more >>Leading Indicators of Employment in South Africa
by DAVIES, R. and VAN SEVENTER, D., 2009Research Report, Human Sciences Research Council, March 2005
Davies and van Seventer explore how an indicator might be constructed that can be used to predict employment. It assesses the various series that are used to construct the South African Reserve Bank’s leading, coincident and lagging indicators of the business cycle Business cycle analysts typically identify cycles in GDP and then examine series of…
read more >>The institutional underpinnings of the unemployment-inflation relationship: a review paper
by MICHIE, J., 2003Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
“Michie examines the institutional underpinnings in the relations between unemployment and inflation. This is a central question for policy makers in solving significant structural unemployment gaps: interventions to stimulate the economy can often lead to inflationary impacts unless the institutional environment enables the required response by firms to invest and ultimately generate more employment. He…
read more >>Dynamic and Follower Sectors
by ALTMAN, M & NGANDU, S, 2008Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Altman and Ngandu consider the role of different kinds of sectors’ contribution to growth and employment. Historically, goods production and exports have been a central focus of employment strategies. However, a growing majority of employment created globally is found in services, which are often considered to be non-traded sectors. This raises concerns for policy that…
read more >>Appropriate Analytical Tools for Economy-Wide Analysis of Employment Creating Policies in South Africa
by VAN SEVENTER, D.E.N, 2002Research report, Employment and Economic Policy Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria. Prepared for the Department of Science and Technology
This concept paper explores the usefulness of economy-wide analysis of employment-creating policies in South Africa. Van Seventer discusses the importance of quantitative analysis and economy-wide consistency for the purpose of employment policy analysis. He reviews databases and analytical frameworks previously used in South Africa, as well as a number of other modelling frameworks. Van Seventer…
read more >>Issues of Growth and Employment Concerning the Manufacturing and Services Sectors in South Africa
by TREGENNA, F. , 2006Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
There has been much talk in recent years, both in South Africa and internationally, of the rise of the services sector. Manufacturing is regarded by some as no longer being able to generate economic growth and employment on the scale required in a country such as South Africa. Others have concern that there is a…
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