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SA-TIED seminar on pension-related tax expendituresOn 03 May the SA-TIED programme will host an online seminar on pension-related tax expenditures. The presentation will be given by Agustin Redonda and Chris Axelson under the SA-TIED project work stream on Public revenue for inclusive development ...
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State-dependent fiscal multipliers and financial dynamics: An impulse response analysis by local projections for South AfricaThe aim of this paper is to assess South Africa’s fiscal multiplier across different states of the economy, with a focus on the financial accelerator mechanism of fiscal policy shocks, by estimating impulse response functions from both linear a...
Fiscal multipliers impulse response State-dependentBlog
COVID-19 lays bare Cape Town’s social divide, deepens underlying inequalitiesThe COVID-19 pandemic delivered a devastating economic shock to livelihoods across the world. In Cape Town, it has been toughest on those who had just found a way to keep their heads above water, living on the fringes of urban society...
South Africa Urban COVID-19Blog
Good intentions falling short – the case of pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa
Tax benefits to boost contributions into pension funds or pension-related tax expenditures (PTEs) are used widely by governments worldwide to address issues related to the aging of population and the sustainability of retirement systems...
Inequality Tax administration data Tax expendituresWorking Paper
The impacts of public expenditure innovations on real exchange rate volatility in South AfricaThis study investigates the impacts of public expenditure innovations on exchange rate volatility in South Africa using quarterly data for the period 1970–2019...
Public expenditure impulse response Exchange rateWorking Paper
Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID-19 and state-led remedial measures in South AfricaThis paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa...
Social protection Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distributionWorking Paper
Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South AfricaMillions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services...
Public service delivery Ethnicity AfricaBlog
Persistent gender roles in South Africa deprive women of leisure time
In most countries, traditional gender roles within the household are still common due to the prevalence and persistence of patriarchal systems...
South Africa Women's empowerment Women's labour force participationWorking Paper
The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa: A view from belowThis paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy measures on livelihoods in urban South Africa...
COVID-19 Welfare dynamics LockdownWorking Paper
The asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty on firm-level investment in South Africa: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax dataThis paper uses firm-level data and a news-based measure of economic policy uncertainty to provide empirical evidence that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa...
Economic policy policy uncertainty InvestmentBlog
Technology and supermarket chains can help strengthen southern Africa’s food systemsAgriculture and agro-processing value chains have been under pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been particularly marked where they remain underdeveloped, as is the case in South Africa and the rest of the region...
Technology Supermarkets South AfricaBlog
Surprise success – moving SA-TIED seminars online makes them more engaging and fruitful
In September 2020, due to the ongoing pandemic, SA-TIED moved its seminar series online. What once took place at the National Treasury in Pretoria, now takes place once or twice a month on Zoom...
SA-TIED South AfricaWorking Paper
The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparisonThis study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey...
leisure household composition Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Youth unemployment hysteresis in South Africa: Macro-micro analysisThis study simulates the macro-micro economic impacts of the employment policy, focusing on hysteresis in youth unemployment in South Africa...
Computable general equilibrium Youth unemployment EmploymentWorking Paper
Structural estimates of the South African sacrifice ratioThis paper estimates the output cost of fighting inflation—the sacrifice ratio—for the South African economy using quarterly data spanning the period 1998Q1–2019Q3...
Monetary policy Inflation targeting OutputTechnical Note
Identifying foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises: CIT-IRP5 panel v4.0The identification of foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the CIT-IRP5 panel has proved to be a challenge for many researchers...
Multinational firms Foreign firms Tax data