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310: The Employment Tax Incentive – a reform proposal

Andrew R Donaldson

309: An Analytical Framework to Assess Green Transition Jobs in South Africa

Katherine Davidson, Ariane De Lannoy, Joanna Grotte, Aindam Jana, Anda David and Murray Leibbrandt

308: Labour Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gabriel Espi-Sanchis, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

307: Trend in energy intensity and carbon performance in North Africa

Grakolet Gourene, Samia Mansour Hamouda and Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski

306: How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?

Grakolet Gourene, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Jiri Balcar and Lenka Johnson Filipova

305: Profiling green jobs and workers in South Africa: An occupational tasks approach

Jacqueline Mosomi and Wendy Cunningham

304: Youth and the just transition – a profile of young NEET in Mpumalanga

Gibson Mudiriza, Ariane De Lannoy and Anda David

303: Demographic Challenges for Global Labor Markets in the 21st Century, Africa in a Changing World

David Lam and Murray Leibbrandt

302: Allocative efficiency between and within the formal and informal manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe

Godfrey Kamutando and Lawrence Edwards

301: What can we understand about learning losses in 2020 from university application and enrolment data?

Nicola Branson, Vimal Ranchhod and Emma Whitelaw

300: South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system wide higher education institutional data

Nicola Branson, Vimal Ranchhod and Emma Whitelaw

299: Protests in Latin America in the middle of ongoing global systemic crises

Magda Catalina Jiménez Jiménez and Fabio Díaz Pabón

298: Profile of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) aged 15-24 years in South Africa: an annual update

Ariane De Lannoy and Gibson Mudiriza

297: Developing a Youth Labour Market Index for South Africa at the sub-national level

Gibson Mudiriza, Joanna Grotte, Ariane De Lannoy, Anda David and Murray Leibbrandt

296: The impact of migration on the welfare of migrant sending households in selected rural areas of Zimbabwe

Cecil Mlatsheni and Ronald Zvendiya

295: Household formation, living alone, and not getting married in South Africa

Amy Thornton

294: From Drought to Distress: Examining the Mental Health Consequences of Water Scarcity in Ethiopia

Richard Freund

293: Trends in household headship and living alone in South Africa, 1995-2011

Amy Thornton

292: Leaving the parental home in post-apartheid South Africa

Amy Thornton

291: The South African personal income tax base, 2011-2018: Income and taxable income, adjusted for retirement fund and medical expense reporting changes

Andrew R. Donaldson

290: Measuring rural households and electricity access: A comparison of national census data and small-area health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) data

Takwanisa Machemedze, Mercy Shoko, Mark Collinson and Martin Wittenberg

289: Learning in lockdown: University students’ academic performance during COVID-19 closures

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

288: Social stratification and post-school funding thresholds: A dynamic approach to profiling the missing middle

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

287: The Evolution of Household Transport Spending in Post-Apartheid South Africa: 1995-2015

Adrienne Sutherland and Andrew Kerr

286: Pareto efficient intrahousehold allocations and land rights: evidence from South Africa

Nicholas Fitzhenry and Malcolm Keswell

285: Household Survival Strategies during COVID-19: Evidence from Panel Data in South Africa

Katherine Eyal

284: The role of employment history and age during COVID-19: Understanding 2020 South African employment dynamics in historical context

Gabriel Espi-Sanchis, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

283: Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: representativeness, household counts, and small households

Amy Thornton and Martin Wittenberg

282: Employment uncertainty in the era of COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM and the QLFS

Reza Daniels, Kim Ingle and Tim Brophy

281: The deepening of inequalities in Latin America during and after the pandemic

Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña and Fabio Díaz Pabón

280: Creating household weights for NIDS-CRAM

Martin Wittenberg and Nicola Branson

279: Labour market effects of the great lockdown in South Africa: Earnings and employment during 2020–2022

Aidan J. Horn and Andrew R. Donaldson

278: Methods for credible evaluation of programme stimulus effects in South Africa

Ihsaan Bassier and Joshua Budlender

277: Employment and earnings by industry before Covid-19

Andrew R. Donaldson and Aidan J. Horn

276: South Africa’s Unemployment Insurance Fund Benefit Function: A Mathematical Critique

Aidan J. Horn

275: Reinstating the importance of categorical inequities in South Africa

Murray Leibbrandt and Fabio Díaz Pabón

274: The effects of credit rationing on re-enrollment rates at a University in South Africa

Nicola Branson, Jane Hendry and Vimal Ranchhod

273: NIDS-CRAM Wave 1 Data Quality

Cally Ardington

272: The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2

Ronak Jain, Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender and Rocco Zizzamia

271: Determinants of attrition in NIDS-CRAM Waves 1 & 2

Reza Daniels, Kim Ingle and Tim Brophy

270: Private transfers and graduate responsibilities: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study

Emma Whitelaw and Nicola Branson

269: Unpacking the potential implications of Covid-19 for gender inequality in the SA labour market

Jacqueline Mosomi, Amy Thornton and Nicola Branson

268: Youth emotional well-being during the COVID-19-related lockdown in South Africa

Gibson Mudiriza and Ariane De Lannoy

267: Sample design and weighting in the NIDS-CRAM survey

Andrew Kerr, Cally Ardington and Rulof Burger

266: The ‘great regression’ and the protests to come in Latin America

Fabio Díaz Pabón and Mari´a Gabriela Palacio Luden~a

265: Labour market dynamics in South Africa in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from wave 1 of the NIDS-CRAM survey

Vimal Ranchhod and Reza Daniels

264: Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers

Ronak Jain, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia and Ihsaan Bassier

263: Information Flows in the South African Post-school Education and Training sector: a focus on university and government stakeholders

Nicola Branson, Samantha Culligan and Judy Favish

262: What is a firm census in a developing country? An answer from Ghana

Andrew Kerr and Bruce McDougall

261: Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers

Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod