How important are firms for wage inequality in developing countries where structural
unemployment is high? Research focused on contexts close to full employment has …

A wealth of new writing has emerged around the future of labour, focusing on thinking
beyond employment in imagining the futures of 'surplus populations' no longer needed by …

There is broad consensus that youth unemployment in South Africa is critical, with latest
figures confirming that one half of young people 15-34 years are unemployed by the broad …

Why would the long-term unemployed poor continue to insist that wage labour must remain
the key path to income–even in a place like South Africa, with endemic structural …

The availability of anonymized individual tax return data can contribute to a deeper
understanding of the drivers behind the high levels of inequality and unemployment in South …

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a
hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment. We show that …

This paper presents version 4.0 of the CIT-IRP5 firm-level panel dataset. Version 4.0 is the
latest edition of the firm-level component of the combined administrative data using sources …

Labour market policies such as National Minimum Wages (NMW) are widely used in
different countries to reduce poverty and inequality. Given the high and rising rate of youth …

South Africa's stubbornly low labour utilisation rate is an international outlier and a heavy
brake on the ambitions for growth and redistribution published in various strategic policy …

The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax
Incentive, a South African wage subsidy system that is targeted at the employers of low …