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08/2009: The comparability of Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS)

Derek Yu

07/2009: The impact of teacher characteristics on student performance: An analysis using hierarchical linear modelling

Paula Armstrong

06/2009: Evaluating Africa’s comparative advantage in travel service exports

Johan Fourie

04/2009: Teacher pay in South Africa: How attractive is the teaching profession?

Paula Armstrong

03/2009: World Rankings of Comparative Advantage in Service Exports

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

02/2009: The effect of livestock theft on household poverty in developing countries: The case of Lesotho

Selloane Khoabane and Philip Black

01/2009: The importance of socio-economic status in determining educational achievement in South Africa

Stephen Taylor and Derek Yu

24/2008: Effect of changes in state funding of higher education on higher education output in South Africa: 1986-2007

Pierre de Villiers and Gert Steyn

23/2008: The significance of the Cape trade route to economic activity in the Cape colony: a medium-term business cycle analysis

Willem Boshoff and Johan Fourie

22/2008: What explains the academic success of second-year economics students? An exploratory analysis

Petronella Horn, Ada Jansen and Derek Yu

21/2008: Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa

Hassan Essop and Derek Yu

20/2008: Afrikaanse musiek en die model van rasionele verslawing

Ansie de Wet

19/2008: Does survivorship bias really matter? An empirical investigation into its effects on the mean reversion of share returns on the JSE Securities Exchange (1984-2006)

Evan Gilbert and Dave Strugnell

18/2008: Sample selection bias and the South African wage function

Cobus Burger

17/2008: What we can learn from a comparison of the schooling systems of South Africa and Argentina

Martin Gustafsson and Alejandro Morduchowicz

16/2008: Using Match Attractiveness Measures to Evaluate the Structure of the Currie Cup

Franz Siebrits and Johan Fourie

15/2008: Estimating Hedonic Prices for Stellenbosch wine

Sanja Lutzeyer

14/2008: Residential Property Prices in a Sub-Market of South Africa: Separating Real Growth from Attribute Growth

Michael Els and Dieter von Fintel

13/2008: How invariant is South African child poverty to the choice of equivalence scale or poverty measure?

Judith Streak, Derek Yu and Servaas van der Berg

12/2008: Climate Trading - The Clean Development Mechanism and Africa

Sanja Lutzeyer

11/2008: The comparability of Income and Expenditure Surveys 1995, 2000 and 2005/2006

Derek Yu

10/2008: South African Trade Unions: an Overview for 1995 to 2005

Paula Armstrong and Janca Steenkamp

09/2008: From Competitive Balance to Match Attractiveness in Rugby Union

Johan Fourie and Franz Siebrits

08/2008: The Economic Impacts of Government Financing of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Ramos Mabugu and Ahmed Mohamed

07/2008: Optimal HP filtering for South Africa

Leon du Toit

06/2008: Post-Apartheid Trends in Gender Discrimination in South Africa: Analysis through Decomposition Techniques

Debra Shepherd

05/2008: The South African labour market: 1995 – 2006

Derek Yu

04/2008: Poverty in South Africa: A profile based on recent household surveys

Paula Armstrong, Bongisa Lekezwa and Franz Siebrits

03/2008: The South African informal sector (1997 – 2006)

Hassan Essop and Derek Yu

02/2008: Do tutorial programmes influence the performance of Economics students? A case study of the Economics 178 course at Stellenbosch University

Petronella Horn and Ada Jansen

01/2008: Explaining ship traffic fluctuations in the early Cape settlement: 1652–1793

Willem Boshoff and Johan Fourie

17/2007: The comparability of the Statistics South Africa October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys

Derek Yu

16/2007: Lessons learnt from SACMEQII: South African student performance in regional context

Servaas van der Berg and Megan Louw

15/2007: Infrastructure in South Africa: Who is to finance and who is to pay?

Estian Calitz and Johan Fourie

14/2007: Price elasticity and other forces shaping cigarette demand in South Africa over 1996-2006

Willem Boshoff

13/2007: A fiscal rule to produce counter-cyclical fiscal policy in South Africa

Stan Du Plessis and Willem Boshoff

12/2007: The cyclicality of monetary and fiscal policy in South Africa since 1994

Stan Du Plessis, Ben Smit and Federico Sturzenegger

11/2007: Identifying aggregate supply and demand shocks in South Africa

Stan Du Plessis, Ben Smit and Federico Sturzenegger

10/2007: Democracy and the feedback mechanism in Botswana

Sophia du Plessis

09/2007: A series of national accounts-consistent estimates of poverty and inequality in South Africa

Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, Rulof Burger, Megan Louw and Derek Yu

08/2007: Post-transition poverty trends based on an alternative data source

Servaas van der Berg, Megan Louw and Derek Yu

07/2007: Two optimistic traditions in the dismal science: rationalism and the "invisible hand"

Stan Du Plessis

06/2007: Policy Brief: How pro-poor is the South African Health System?

Ronelle Burger

05/2007: The changing face of public funding of higher education, with special reference to South Africa

Pierre de Villiers and Gert Steyn

04/2007: Poverty and inequality effects of a high growth scenario in South Africa: A dynamic microsimulation CGE analysis

Ramos Mabugu and Margaret Chitiga

03/2007: A Note on Infrastructure Quality in South Africa

Johan Fourie

02/2007: Consumption patterns and the black middle class: The role of assets

Sihaam Nieftagodien and Servaas van der Berg

01/2007: Using the hierarchical linear model to understand school production in South Africa

Martin Gustafsson

17/2006: Quantitative competition analysis: Stationarity tests in geographic market definition

Willem Boshoff

16/2006: Institutions and Institutional Change in Zambia

Sophia du Plessis