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2018: Counting Women’s Work in South Africa: Incorporating Unpaid Work into Estimates of the Economic Lifecycle in 2010

Morne Oosthuizen

2018: Counting Women’s Work in Mauritius: Household Production across the Lifecycle in 2003

Morne Oosthuizen and Kezia Lilenstein

2018: Understanding and Characterizing the Services Sector in South Africa: An Overview

Haroon Bhorat, Francois Steenkamp, Chris Rooney, Nomsa Kachingwe and Adrienne Lees

2018: Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Estimates of Household Production across the Lifecycle in 2000

Morne Oosthuizen

2018: Time Use and Gender in Colombia

Piedad Urdinola and Jorge Tovar

2018: Measuring the Gendered Economy

Gretchen Donehower

2018: SMMES in South Africa: Understanding the Constraints on Growth and Performance

Haroon Bhorat, Zaakhir Asmal, Kezia Lilenstein and Kirsten van der Zee

2018: The Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach

Eugenia Amporfu, Daniel Sakyi, Prince Frimpong, Eric Arthur and Jacob Novignon

2018: Structural Change and Patterns of Inequality in the South African Labour Market

Haroon Bhorat and Safia Khan

2018: Intergenerational time transfers and their contribution to Mexico's economy in 2014

Estela Rivero

2017: Challenges to increase female labor force participation: Gender inequality in Cost Rica

Pamela Jiménez-Fontana

2017: The Seychelles Labor Market

Haroon Bhorat, Arabo Ewinyu and Derek Yu

2017: The Socio-Economic Determinants of Crime in South Africa: An Empirical Assessment

Haroon Bhorat, Adaiah Lilenstein, Jabulile Monnakgotla and Amy Thornton

2017: Correlates of ICTS and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Safia Khan, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Chris Rooney

2017: State Of Manufacturing In South Africa

Haroon Bhorat and Chris Rooney

2017: The Role of Informal Urban Settlements in Upward Mobility

Ivan Turok, Josh Budlender and Justin Visagie

2016: The Paradox of Effective Labor Regulation

Lucas Ronconi, Mercedes Sidders and Benjamin Stanwix

2016: Vulnerability In Employment: Evidence from South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Amy Thornton

2016: Informality and Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aalia Cassim, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Francois Steenkamp

2016: Investigating the Feasibility of a National Minimum Wage for South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Tara Caetano, Benjamin Jourdan, Ravi Kanbur, Chris Rooney, Benjamin Stanwix and Ingrid Woolard

2015: Labor Market Regulations in Sub-Saharan Africa, With a Focus on Senegal

Stephen Golub, Aly Mbaye and Hanyu Chwe

2015: Can Africa Compete with China in Manufacturing? The Role of Relative Unit Labor Costs

Janet Ceglowski, Stephen Golub, Aly Mbaye and Varun Prasad

2015: Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Benjamin Stanwix

2014: Non-Income Welfare And Inclusive Growth In South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Benjamin Stanwix and Derek Yu

2014: The Urban Informal Sector in Francophone Africa: Large Versus Small Enterprises in Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Nancy Benjamin, Stephen Golub and Jean-Jacques Ekomie

2014: The Real Exchange Rate and Sectoral Employment in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Nan Tian and Mark Ellyne

2014: The Silent Success: Delivery of Public Assets Since Democracy

Haroon Bhorat, Carlene Van Der Westhuizen and Derek Yu

2014: Trade Unions In An Emerging Economy: The Case Of South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo and Derek Yu

2014: Economic Policy in South Africa: Past Present and Future

Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube

2013: Do Industrial Disputes Reduce Employment? Evidence from South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Elne Jacobs and Carlene Van der Westhuizen

2013: Unemployment Insurance in South Africa: A Descriptive Overview of Claimants and Claims

Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga and David Tseng

2013: Labour Unions and Wage Inequality Among African Men in South Africa

Miracle Ntuli and Prudence Kwenda

2013: Inflation Inequality In South Africa

Morne Oosthuizen

2013: Maximising South Africa's Demographic Dividend

Morne Oosthuizen

2012: Disability Grant and Individual Labour Force Participation: The Case of South Africa

George Mutasa

2012: Demographic, Community and Macroeconomic Effects on Disability Grant Programme Participation

George Mutasa

2012: The Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages and Hours of Work in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Natasha Mayet

2012: Student Graduation, Labour Market Destinations and Employment Earnings

Haroon Bhorat, Natasha Mayet and Mariette Visser

2012: Employment Outcomes and Returns to Earnings in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Haroon Bhorat and Natasha Mayet

2012: Poverty, Inequality and the Nature of Economic Growth in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat and Carlene Van Der Westhuizen

2012: A Nation in Search of Jobs: Six Possible Policy Suggestions for Employment Creation in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat

2012: Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Benjamin Stanwix

2012: The Gender Wage Gap in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market

Haroon Bhorat and Sumayya Goga

2012: The Newly Unemployed and the UIF Take-up Rate in the South African Labour Market

Haroon Bhorat and David Tseng

2011: Institutional Wage Effects: Revisiting Union and Bargaining Council Wage Premia in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga and Carlene Van Der Westhuizen

2011: Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Natasha Mayet

2011: Economists versus the Street: Comparative Viewpoints on Barriers to Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Paul Cichello, Liberty Mncube, Morne Oosthuizen and Laura Poswell

2011: Minimum Wage Violation in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Natasha Mayet

2011: Estimating a poverty line: An application to free basic municipal services in South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Morne Oosthuizen and Carlene Van Der Westhuizen

2010: Transformation: African People in the Western Cape An Overview

Sabie Surtee and Martin Hall