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UCT ERT Student Experience Survey 2020

Author: Marquard, Stephen ; Walji, Sukaina ; Lester, Soraya ; Kefale, Kende ; Deacon, Andrew Date: 25 Sep 2020 Final report of the UCT Emergency Remote Teaching Student Experience Survey 2020, an online survey of student experiences of emergency remote teaching (ERT) during the 2nd term of 2020 (April to July 2020). The purpose of the survey was ... Read more
Uncertainties and associated concerns relating to using short-term projections to advise on the 2020 sardine TAC and TABs

Author: de Moor, Carryn ; Coetzee, Janet ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2019 The analyses undertaken to provide a scientific recommendation for the 2019 sardine TAC and TAB, under Exceptional Circumstances were subject to a number of more serious uncertainties than would normally apply. Given the critically low level ... Read more
Unconditional cash transfers and children’s educational outcomes: Evidence from the old-age pension programme in South Africa

Author: Standish-White, Jessica; Finn, Arden Date: 06 Jun 2017 We use longitudinal data from three waves of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study to estimate the effect of pension receipt in the household on children's educational outcomes in South Africa. We find that children who co-reside with ... Read more
Undermining Government Tax Policies: Common strategies employed by the tobacco industry in response to tobacco tax increases

Author: Ross, Hana; Tesche, Jean; Vellios, Nicole Date: 06 Jun 2017 Introduction: Effective tobacco tax increases reduce tobacco consumption, threatening the profitability of the tobacco industry. In response, the tobacco industry employs strategies to negate or minimize the full effects of tobacco tax ... Read more
Unemployment and AIDS: The Social-Democratic Challenge for South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 28 May 2015 There are two major economic and social security challenges facing South Africa: addressing large-scale unemployment and the AIDS pandemic. As of 2003, an estimated 14% of all South Africans were HIV-positive, with over a thousand people dying ... Read more
Unemployment and casual labour in Maseru: The impact of changing employment strategies on migrant labourers in Lesotho

Author: Thabane, M.; Guy, J. Date: 28 May 2015 Unemployment, labour market, Lesotho Read more
Unemployment and Household formation

Author: Ebrahim, Amina; Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 In comparison to other continents, Africa has received little scholarly attention with regard to household composition. Household composition is endogenous to a variety of welfare issues and little is understood about the determinants of this ... Read more
Unemployment in Bishop Lavis

Author: Blau, A.; Thomas, J. Date: 28 May 2015 Unemployment, Cape Town, Bishop Lavis Read more
Unemployment, Employment and Labour-Force Participation in Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 28 May 2015 This paper provides a rough guide to the labour force in Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain with a particular focus on unemployment. The task is partly conceptual (a discussion is provided on statistical norms for measuring unemployment) and partly ... Read more
Unfair dismissals

Author: Nupen, C. Date: 28 May 2015 labour legislation, industrial relations Read more
Unintended labour supply effects of cash transfer programmes: Evidence from South Africa's old age pension

Author: Abel, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 Employing South Africa’s first nationally representative panel data set, I find that having old age pension recipients in the household adversely affects employment outcomes of prime-aged adults both by reducing the probability that the ... Read more
Union selection effects - some inconsistent models

Author: Wittenberg, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 We show that some of the models which have been used in the South African literature to estimate union selection effects are logically inconsistent. This is a much more serious problem than a failure to identify the coefficient. It implies ... Read more
Univariate Multiple Imputation for Coarse Employee Income Data

Author: Daniels, Reza Che Date: 28 May 2015 This paper is concerned with conducting univariate multiple imputation for employee income data that is comprised of continuously distributed observations, observations that are bounded by consecutive income brackets, and observations that ... Read more
Up or Down? Intergenerational Mental Health Transmission and Cash Transfers in South Africa

Author: Eyal, Katherine; Burns, Justine Date: 06 Jun 2017 We investigate the intergenerational transmission of depression in South Africa from parents to teens, and the positive role income shocks (in the form of cash transfers) can play to reduce this transmission effect. South Africa is characterised ... Read more
Update on Children's Bill 4 February 2005

Author: Proudlock, Paula ; Jamieson, Lucy Date: Feb 2005 Read more c b n d
Update on Children's Bill: Portfolio Committee deliberations 17 – 21 January 2005. Key issues raised during presentation by inter-departmental steering commitee

Author: Proudlock, Paula ; Jamieson, Lucy Date: Jan 2005 Read more c b n d
Update on the MARAM hake predation model, focusing on the natural mortality-at-age vectors to be used for the Reference Set of Operating Models for the 2018 Hake OMP review

Author: Ross-Gillespie, Andrea ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: Mar 2018 The Panel at the 2017 International Stock Assessment Workshop recommended single selections for natural mortality-at-age vectors for the two hake species for the Operating Models for OMP testing, and that these be based on the hake predation ... Read more
Update to the hake Reference Case model incorporating the 2018 commercial and 2019 survey data

Author: Ross-Gillespie, Andrea ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2019 The Reference Case Ricker model is updated with commercial and survey data from 2018 and 2019. The updated data points lie within the bounds predicted by OMP2018 projections, except for the 2018 proportion of M. capensis in the South Coast ... Read more
Updated (and rescaled) Tristan GLM-standardised lobster CPUE to take account of data for the 2017 season

Author: Johnston, Susan ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: May 2018 The Powerboat CPUE series for Tristan was last updated in 2017 (MARAM/Tristan/2017/MAY/04) and took data for the 1994-20161 seasons into account. This GLM incorporated a method whereby the full GLM for Tristan can be rescaled to take into ... Read more
Updated (and rescaled) Tristan GLM-standardised lobster CPUE to take account of data for the 2018 season

Author: Johnston, Susan ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2019 The Powerboat CPUE series for Tristan was last updated in 2018 (MARAM/Tristan/2018/MAY/05) and took data for the 1994-20171 seasons into account. This GLM incorporated a method whereby the full GLM for Tristan can be rescaled to take into ... Read more