South African Journal of Economics

1933 - 2025

Current editor(s): Philip A. Black

From Economic Society of South Africa
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Volume 72, issue 5, 2004

CONSTRUCTION OF CPIX DATA FOR FORECASTING AND MODELLING IN SOUTH AFRICA* pp. 884-912

Janine Aron and John Muellbauer

NON‐LINEAR EARNINGS DYNAMICS IN POST‐APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA pp. 913-939

Malcolm Keswell

LABOUR MARKET CHALLENGES IN THE POST‐APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA pp. 940-977

Haroon Bhorat

‘TWO MILLION NET NEW JOBS': A RECONSIDERATION OF THE RISE IN EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1995–2003 pp. 978-1002

Daniela Casale, Colette Muller and Dorrit Posel

THE MYSTERY OF SOUTH AFRICA'S GHOST WORKERS IN 1996: MEASUREMENT AND MISMEASUREMENT IN THE MANUFACTURING CENSUS, POPULATION CENSUS AND OCTOBER HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS pp. 1003-1022

Martin Wittenberg

EMPLOYMENT, WAGES AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: FIRM‐SPECIFIC EFFECTS — EVIDENCE FROM A FIRM SURVEY IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 1023-1056

Haroon Bhorat and Paul Lundall

AN OPERATIONAL GUIDE TO THE ESTIMATION OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COST OF LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 1057-1068

Hasan Ali Bicak, Glenn Jenkins, Chun‐yan Kuo and M Benjamin Mphahlele

ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL NOTE pp. 1069-1075

Philip Black

INTERPRETING ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY RESULTS: SPENDING PATTERNS, VISITOR NUMBERS AND FESTIVAL AIMS pp. 1076-1084

J.D. Snowball

MEGA‐SPORTING EVENTS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS: PLAYING THE WAY TO PROSPERITY? pp. 1085-1096

Victor Matheson and Robert A. Baade

A BRIEF NOTE ON NEL AND LEKALAKE: MONETARY TRANSPARENCY IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 1097-1104

Jannie Rossouw

MONETARY POLICY TRANSPARENCY IN SOUTH AFRICA: A REPLY TO ROSSOUW pp. 1105-1107

Hugo Nel

Volume 72, issue 4, 2004

AFRICAN EQUITY MARKETS AND THE PROCESS OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION pp. 658-683

Daryl Collins and Mark Abrahamson

CAPITALISATION AND WEAK‐FORM EFFICIENCY IN THE JSE SECURITIES EXCHANGE pp. 684-707

Keith Jefferis and Graham Smith

THE SOVEREIGN DEBT RESTRUCTURING MECHANISM: IS IT THE PROPOSAL OR THE PROPOSER THAT IS FAILING TO FIND SUPPORT?φ pp. 708-729

Ashley G. Frank

THE MONETARY‐FISCAL POLICY MIX IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 730-758

Jan A. Swanepoel

SHOULD SOUTH AFRICA ADOPT NUMERICAL FISCAL RULES?1 pp. 759-783

Franz Siebrits and Estian Calitz

FOOTLOOSE AND TAX FREE: INCENTIVE PREFERENCES IN KENYAN EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES pp. 784-807

Robert J. Rolfe, Douglas Woodward and Bernard Kagira

SOME WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF A LAND TAX ON THE WESTERN CAPE1 pp. 808-833

Scott McDonald and Cecilia Punt

RETURNS TO EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A RETROSPECTIVE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE pp. 834-860

Malcolm Keswell and Laura Poswell

DOES LECTURE ATTENDANCE MATTER? SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM A FIRST‐YEAR ECONOMICS COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN pp. 861-883

Cornéa van Walbeek

Volume 72, issue 3, 2004

EDITORIAL pp. 411-412

Servaas van der Berg and Philip Black

POVERTY AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL pp. 413-436

Pa Black

HOUSEHOLD FORMATION, POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT — THE CASE OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 437-483

Sonja Keller

HOW HOUSEHOLD CONTEXT AFFECTS SEARCH OUTCOMES OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN KWAZULU‐NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA pp. 484-521

Taryn Dinkelman

INCOME AND POVERTY DYNAMICS IN HIV/AIDS‐AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS IN THE FREE STATE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA pp. 522-545

F. Le R. Booysen

CHANGING PATTERNS OF SOUTH AFRICAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION: TOWARDS TIME SERIES ESTIMATES OF DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY1 pp. 546-572

Servaas van der Berg and Megan Louw

THE RACIAL EMPLOYMENT GAP IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 573-580

Mich Brookes and Timothy Hinks

SOUTH AFRICAN BANKS AND THE UNBANKED: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS pp. 581-603

Andrie Schoombee

SAVINGS, INSURANCE AND DEBT OVER THE POST‐APARTHEID PERIOD: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH pp. 604-640

Cally Ardington, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and James Levinsohn

Volume 72, issue 2, 2004

PURCHASING POWER PARITY AND CROSS‐SECTIONAL DEPENDENCY pp. 238-257

Khalifa Hassanain

PURCHASING POWER PARITY AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICY REFORMS IN AFRICA pp. 258-281

Joseph M. Kargbo

ESTIMATION OF THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE FOR SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 282-304

Ronald MacDonald and Luca Ricci

CAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES ACHIEVE LONG‐RUN REAL EXCHANGE RATE DEPRECIATION THROUGH NOMINAL EXCHANGE RATE DEPRECIATION? pp. 305-323

Mark Holmes

THE SUITABILITY OF DOLLARISATION AS AN EXCHANGE RATE REGIME FOR SOUTH AFRICA1 pp. 324-348

G.M. Wessels

MONETARY POLICY TRANSPARENCY IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 349-364

Hugo Nel and Kaone Lekalake

THE MCI AS A MONETARY POLICY GUIDE IN A SMALL, OPEN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMY pp. 365-383

P. Burger and Tobias Knedlik

BANK OF BOTSWANA'S REACTION FUNCTION: MODELLING BOTSWANA'S MONETARY POLICY STRATEGY pp. 384-406

Lekgatlhamang Setlhare

RESPONSE TO RANGASAMY AND HARMSE: TRADE LIBERALISATION IN THE 1990S pp. 407-412

Johannes Fedderke and P. Vaze

Volume 71, issue 4, 2003

SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTIVITY AND CAPITAL ACCUMULATION IN MANUFACTURING: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS pp. 659-678

Lawrence Edwards and Stephen Golub

THE DTI'S NEW‘INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING STRATEGY?’ pp. 679-704

Johannes Machaka and Simon Roberts

THE EXTENT OF TRADE LIBERALISATION IN THE 1990S: REVISITED* pp. 705-728

Logan Rangasamy and C. Harmse

ARE PRICES STICKY DOWNWARDS? THE EFFECT OF TRADE LIBERALISATION ON SOUTH AFRICA'S WINE INDUSTRY pp. 729-761

S. Ssekabira Ntege and C. Harmse

PRODUCTION FRAGMENTATION AND SPECIALISATION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SADC TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY pp. 762-791

Lennart Petersson

THINKING LIKE A GOVERNOR pp. 792-805

Walter A. de Wet

FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE pp. 806-829

F.C. vN. Fourie and P. Burger

CAPITALISM, INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND PROFESSOR TERREBLANCHE pp. 830-886

Joubert Botha

Volume 71, issue 3, 2003

AIDS, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 428-454

Nicoli Nattrass*

WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING TO INTERNAL LABOUR MIGRATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1993–1999? pp. 455-479

Dorrit Posel and Daniela Casale

UNDERSTANDING UNEMPLOYMENT IN BOTSWANA pp. 480-495

Haappy Kufigwa Siphambe

EDUCATION AND SOCIO‐ECONOMIC DIFFERENTIALS: A STUDY OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN THE WESTERN CAPE pp. 496-522

Servaas van der Berg and Ronelle Burger

THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COST OF CAPITAL IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 523-543

Chun‐Yan Kuo, Glenn Jenkins and M. Benjamin Mphahlele

A NOTE ON CARTEL PRICING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMENT INDUSTRY pp. 544-555

H.F. de Wet

CAPITALISM, INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND PROFESSOR TERREBLANCHE pp. 556-594

Joubert Botha

A HISTORY OF INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1652–2002 pp. 595-610

Brian Dollery

SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID, BLACK‐WHITE INEQUALITY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR REPARATIONS pp. 611-630

Gregory Price

FROM TRANSITION TO RECOVERY: SOUTH AFRICA'S ECONOMIC REVIVAL pp. 631-651

P.D.F. Strydom

Volume 71, issue 2, 2003

Human Capital Development and the Net Worth of Government: A Review pp. 114-125

P Burger

Efficiency and Road Privatisation: Bidding, Tolling and the ‘user Pays’ Principle pp. 126-136

A Leiman

The Case for an Increased Tax on Alcohol in South Africa pp. 137-145

Charles dh Parry, Bronwyn Myers and Michael Thiede

An Empirical Investigation Into the Budget Deficit ‐ Inflation Nexus in South Africa pp. 146-154

Emmanuel Anoruo

The Economic Cost of Foreign Exchange for South Africa pp. 155-169

Arnold Harberger, Glenn Jenkins, Chun‐Yan Kuo and M Benjamin Mphahlele

Consumer Demand in South Africa pp. 170-181

Selvanathan Ea and Saroja Selvanathan

Paying to Play ‐ the Pricing Policies of Casinos*(1) pp. 182-190

Barr Gdi and Kantor Bs

Considering Samuelson's ‘fallacy of the Law of Large Numbers’, Without Utility pp. 191-197

Robert Vivian

How Has Inflation Targeting Affected Monetary Policy in South Africa? pp. 198-210

Geoffrey Woglom

Much Ado about Nothing: A Note on the Modified Inflation Target pp. 211-214

Stan Du Plessis

The Experience of Inflation Targeting in Australia: Lessons for South Africa pp. 215-221

Stephen Saunders

Volume 71, issue 1, 2003

WORK AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY pp. 1-20

P.D.F. Strydom

EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: HOPE OR DESPAIR? pp. 21-48

D. Mahadea

A LABOUR MODEL FOR SOUTH AFRICA pp. 49-76

Charlotte du Toit and Reneéa Koekemoer

THE DECLINE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 77-95

Brian Dollery

ESTIMATING POTENTIAL OUTPUT AND CAPACITY UTILISATION FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY pp. 96-118

Charlotte DU Toit and Elna Moolman

SOUTH AFRICAN MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 1970–1999 pp. 119-142

Michiel Van Dijk

A SIMPLE MODEL FOR POVERTY PROJECTIONS IN MOZAMBIQUE pp. 143-162

B.R. Bolnick

BARGAINING AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS: THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION AND FINANCIAL CONTROL ON NUTRITION OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 163-180

John Simister and Jenifer Piesse

CONTAGION AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN AFRICAN STOCK MARKETS pp. 181-194

D. Collins and Nicholas Biekpe

THE RESPONSE TO ANNUAL EARNINGS INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENTS BY LISTED COMPANIES ON THE GHANA STOCK EXCHANGE pp. 195-210

Kofi A. Osei