Browsing by Department "Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)"

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    Achieving Employment Equity in the Public Service: A study of changes between 1995 and 2001
    (2002-01) Thompson, Keith; Woolard, Ingrid
    This paper will seek to analyse the performance of the public sector in implementing affirmative action policies intended to promote employment equity. This will be done primarily by examining the pattern of changes in public sector employment over the past five years.
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    Africa's Jobs Challenge
    (2013-10) Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen
    There is great opportunity for potential growth in Africa, however, there is also the increasing challenge of promoting growth that is job-creating. It is evident that the continent has much potential to achieve the long-term growth that is necessary for reducing inequality and alleviating poverty. In order to do this, there are key pitfalls that need to be addressed, most importantly, infrastructure development and improved governance and rule of law.
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    Allocating Community Benefits: Institutional Options in Support of the Empo-Tourism Models
    (1998-02) Eliffe, Sean; Rutsch, Peter; de Beer, Geoff
    This paper is the fourth in a series of issue papers prepared within the SDI Policy Programme. It aims to support and enhance the application of work already completed on economic empowerment and to guide/influence the planning and development processes applied in respect of each of the individual tourism led SDI's.
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    An implementation and outcome evaluation of the Parent Centre's Teen Parenting Programme
    (2024) Masvosvere, Tulile; Chapman, Sarah
    Teenage pregnancy and the impact of the HIV epidemic are significant factors leading to adolescents assuming parental responsibilities for children, siblings, or relatives. South African society exhibits diverse family structures and caregiver relationships, extending beyond biological parents to include non-biological caregivers. This study evaluated the Parent Centre's Teen Parenting Programme, a parenting and life skills initiative facilitated by a dedicated team in Nyanga, Gugulethu, and Khayelitsha schools and communities. The programme caters to teenagers with parental responsibilities, encompassing both biological parents and caregivers for younger siblings. Participants voluntarily attended 23 weekly group sessions. The study assessed the programme's implementation, with participants expressing satisfaction with the facilitators' teaching methods and the nurturing atmosphere they fostered. Participants reported positive changes in parenting practices, self-esteem, confidence, and competence, leading to improved parent-child relationships and more effective communication. The study employed a Qualitative Exploratory-Descriptive (QED) research design, guided by a generic qualitative inquiry (GQI) framework to examine practical outcomes and programme implementation. Limitations in causal inference and potential bias due to purposive sampling were acknowledged. Nonetheless, the evaluation provided valuable insights into the strengths of the programme and areas for improvement, contributing to the understanding of teen parenting support programmes.
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    Analysing Wage Formation in the South African Labour Market: The Role of Bargaining Councils
    (2009-07) Bhorat, Haroon; van der Westhuizen, Carlene; Goga, Sumayya
    This policy document was compiled from the DPRU Working Paper 09/135, Analysing Wage Formation in the South African Labour Market: The Role of Bargaining Councils by Haroon Bhorat, Carlene van der Westhuizen and Sumayya Goga.
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    Analysing Wage Formation in the South African Labour Markets: The Role of Bargaining Councils
    (2009-01) Bhorat, Haroon; van der Westhuizen, Carlene; Goga, Sumayya
    The role of bargaining councils, the central pillar of collective bargaining in South Africa, in the formation of wages is important in the context of high unemployment rates in South Africa. In this study we find that while institutionalised collective bargaining system covered substantially more formal sector workers in 2005 (30 percent) compared to 1995 (15 percent), this still meant that less than a third of the formally employed were covered by bargaining councils.
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    An Analysis of Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration Awards
    (2008-08) Macun, Ian; Lopes, Daniel; Benjamin, Paul
    This paper reports on research that involved the analysis of 873 Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) arbitration awards sampled from unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice cases for the years 2003 to 2005. The sample of awards was selected in proportion to the case load of each of the Provincial offices of the CCMA.
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    An Analysis of Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration Awards
    (2008-11) Macun, Ian; Lopes, Daniel; Benjamin, Paul
    The paper reflects the analysis of 873 CCMA arbritation awards sampled from unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice cases for the years 2003 to 2005.
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    An Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of the Clothing Textile Industry in SADC
    (2002-04) Naumann, Eckart
    This paper focuses on the clothing and textile industry in the SADC region, with specific reference to the locational characteristics and developments of these two industry sectors over the last decade. The study links the economic and spatial characteristics of the clothing and textile industries, looks at the current situation and analyses the drivers and barriers to industrialisation and location.
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    Are Wage Adjustments an Effective Mechanism for Poverty Alleviation? Some Simulations for Domestic and Farm Workers
    (2000-09) Bhorat, Haroon
    This paper utilises a basic simulation exercise to analyse the possible poverty and employment reducing effects, of instituting a minimum wage in the South African labour market. The simulation is undertaken for three groups of unskilled workers, namely domestic workers, farm workers and drivers.
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    Assessing the South African Brain Drain, a Statistical Comparison
    (2000-07) Meyer, Jean-Baptiste; Brown, Mercy; Kaplan, David
    For several decades the analysis of the so-called brain drain has been hampered by measurement problems. It is now recognised that the official figures significantly underestimate the extent of the brain drain phenomenon and its increase since the political changes in the mid-1990's. This paper, using data from various reliable sources, provides new statistical evidence on the size of the brain drain from South Africa.
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    An Assessment of the Factors that Promoted Industrial Development in Richards Bay
    (1997-12) Aniruth, Jayanthi; Barnes, Justin
    The research findings and policy recommendatons presented in this report owe their existence to the Industrial Strategy Project (ISP), who commissioned the study as a mechanism for providing input into the Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) policy framework nationally. - See more at: http://www.dpru.uct.ac.za/working-papers#sthash.R5jwrB1h.dpuf
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    Cape Town International Convention Centre: The Projected Economic Distribution
    (2002-08) Standish, Barry
    Towards the end of 2000, a study was commissioned into the projected economic impact of the new Cape Town International Convention Centre. The study set out to measure the macroeconomic impact of the Convention Centre as well as identify industries that could be promoted by the existence of the Centre.
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    The Clothing Industry in Durban
    (1996-07) Prinsloo, Erica
    Dating back several decades, and shaped by the history of the region, the clothing industry in Durban is unique in its relationships, functioning, institutions and prodpects. But it is also one of the largest concentrations of clothing manufacturers in the country.
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    Co-ordination Failure and Employment in South Africa
    (2004-06) Fryer, David; Vencatachellum, Desire
    South Africa lost more than 890,000 jobs, but saw an increase in the number of skilled workers from 1989 to 1999. We argue that this is the consequence of well-documented acute apartheid-era distortions which led to a current coordination failure where (i) firms are locked into a mostly skillintensive technology where they have very little demand for semi-skilled and unskilled labour, and (ii) there are too few semi-skilled and skilled blacks.
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    Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
    (2005-07) Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John
    Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster – enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant others (others in the district or province) enters negatively.
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    A Comparison of Wage Levels and Wage Inequality in the Public and Private Sectors, 1995 - 2000
    (2002-03) Woolard, Ingrid
    This paper sets out to investigate relative wages and wage dispersion for formal sector workers in the private and public sectors. The paper explicitly measures the size of the public sector wage premium and offers some reasons for its existence. It also attempts to document the changing pattern of wage differentials between public and private sector employees between 1995 and 2000.
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    Competition Policy and Privatisation in the South African Water Industry
    (2001-03) Conradie, Beatrice; Goldin, Jacqui; Leiman, Anthony; Standish, Barry; Visser, Martine
    The aim of this working paper is to investigate the optimal regulatory routes from a competition and public interest point of view for the South African water industry. The working paper presents the basic conditions of the water sector by outlining the main characteristics of water, providing an historical and international overview of water management in South Africa.
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    Conditions of Employment and Small Business: Coverage, Compliance and Exemptions
    (2006-03) Godfrey, Shane; Maree, Johann; Theron, Jan
    The research examines the different forms of regulation of conditions of employment (i.e. bargaining council agreements, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), and sectoral determinations) and what sort of accommodation they make for small firms.
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    Conditions of Employment and Small Business: Coverage, Compliance and Exemptions
    (2007-04) Godfrey, Shane; Maree, Johann; Theron, Jan
    This Policy Brief is based on DPRU Working Paper 06/106, Conditions of Employment and Small Business: Coverage, Compliance and Exemptions by Shane Godfrey, Johann Maree and Jan Theron.