Author:Pauw, KalieDate:2007The objective of this analysis is to develop a better understanding of the likely impact that various mitigation options may have on the economy in terms of GDP, employment and household welfare. As noted in the introduction, outcomes of three ...Read more
Author:Pauw, Kalie; Ncube, LibertyDate:Sep 2007Rapid increases in government expenditure on social security between 2000 and 2006 has further increased poor households’ reliance on welfare grants and has been important in the fight against poverty. Already there is evidence of a ...Read morecbna
Author:Pauw, Kalie; Oosthuizen, Morne; van der Westhuizen, CarleneDate:Nov 2006There is consensus among analysts that South Africa's unemployment is structural in the sense that the unemployed generally possess lower skills than what is required in the marketplace. In the context of increasing demand for skilled workers ...Read morecbna
Author:Pauw, Kalie; Oosthuizen, Morne; van der Westhuizen, CarleneDate:Sep 2007This Policy Brief was compliled based on the DPRU Working Paper 06/114, Graduate Unemployment in the Face of Skills Shortages: A Labour Market Paradox researched by Kalie Pauw, Morné Oosthuizen and Carlene van der Westhuizen. The paper was ...Read morecbna
Author:Pauw, Kalie; Ncube, LibertyDate:Aug 2007This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality trends since the advent of democracy in 1994.Read morecbna
Author:Bhorat, Haroon; Pauw, Kalie; Mncube, LibertyDate:Jul 2009This paper, while broadly located within reforming the labour market policy debate, is specifically focused on one aspect of the labour regulatory regime, namely the dispute resolution system. Hence, we attempt to understand the efficiency ...Read morecbna
Author:Burns, Justine; Edwards, Lawrence; Pauw, KalieDate:28 May 2015Wage or employment subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment levels. Various advisers to the South African government have endorsed wage subsidies as a policy measure to deal with this countrys ...Read more