Estimating employment responses to South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive

Joshua Budlender and Amina Ebrahim

No wp-2021-118, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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 attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional difference-in-differences are likely to fail when comparing ETI to matched non-ETI firms.

Keywords: Difference-in-differences; Employment; event study; South Africa; Wage subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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