Research Articles (Economics)
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Non-controlling minority shareholdings and collusion
(Springer, 2020-05)This article merges theoretical literature on non-controlling minority shareholdings (NCMS) in a coherent model to study the effects of NCMS on competition and collusion. The model encompasses both the case of a common ... -
Inflation dynamics : expectations, structural breaks and global factors
(International Centre for Economic Analysis, 2020-08-04)There is no consensus over the importance of “global forces” on inflation. This study explores the role of structural breaks in the inflation process, and their timing, whether it is common across countries, and the extent ... -
Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel
(Taylor and Francis GroupRoutledge, 2019-02)In this article, we describe the record linkage procedure to create a panel from Cape Colony census returns, or opgaafrolle, for 1787–1828, a dataset of 42,354 household-level observations. Based on a subset of manually ... -
OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA, 1880–2000
(2020-02)Osamu Saito’s pioneering research into the long-term changes in occupational structure of Japan has inspired scholars to take a fresh look at structural change in other countries. This article offers a case study of ... -
The limits of laws : traffic law enforcement in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2020-04)Background: The aim of many public policies is to change behaviour. Governments tend to rely on regulations, taxes and subsidies to effect such change. These measures, which affect agents’ economic incentives, have a mixed ... -
Labour control and the establishment of profitable settler agriculture in colonial Kenya, c. 1920–45
(Routledge, 2019)This article contributes to the growing literature on the impact of colonial legacies on long-run development. We focus on Kenya, where it is previously argued that land tenure and taxation policies created an impoverished ... -
SMS nudges as a tool to reduce tuberculosis treatment delay and pretreatment loss to follow-up. A randomized controlled trial
(Public Library of Science, 2019)Background: TB persists despite being relatively easy to detect and cure because the journey from the onset of symptoms to cure involves a series of steps, with patients being lost to follow-up at each stage and delays ... -
The nurse did not even greet me : how informed versus non-informed patients evaluate health systems responsiveness in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)Introduction: Universal Health Coverage is not only about access to health services but also about access to high-quality care, since poor experiences may deter patients from accessing care. Evidence shows that quality of ... -
Intergenerational transfer of health inequalities : exploration of mechanisms in the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa
(BMJ, 2019)South Africa’s history of colonialism and Apartheid contributed to its extreme levels of inequality. Twenty-five years after the transition to democracy, socio-economic and health inequalities continue to rank among the ... -
Effects and determinants of tuberculosis drug stockouts in South Africa
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019)Background: The frequent occurrence of medicine stockouts represents a significant obstacle to tuberculosis control in South Africa. Stockouts can lead to treatment alterations or interruptions, which can impact ... -
Black – and not offended
(ASSAf, 2020-07-10)This Commentary is a response to a Commentary published in the May/June 2020 issue: Nattrass N. Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences? S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6), Art. ... -
Tax revenue mobilisation : estimates of South Africa’s personal income tax gap
(AOSIS, 2019-07-15)Background: Tax evasion is one of the factors impeding tax revenue mobilisation. Although there are efforts to reduce non-compliance, the extent and nature thereof remain fairly unknown in many developing countries, including ... -
Investigating the comprehension iceberg : developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages
(AOSIS, 2020-02-18)Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively under-researched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South ... -
Counting the cost : COVID-19 school closures in South Africa and its impact on children
(AOSIS, 2020-12-07)Background: When the new coronavirus rapidly spread across the globe, the impact of the virus on children was still unclear, and closing schools seemed the responsible thing to do. But much has been learnt since about ... -
What do deviation cycles measure? An analysis of the informational content of filter-based business cycles
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: Empirical business cycle research typically commences with the extraction of a so-called deviation cycle using a time-series smoothing filter. This methodology is appealing for its pragmatism; it is easy to ... -
Food security, wheat production and policy in South Africa : reflections on food sustainability and challenges for a market economy
(AOSIS, 2018)The traditional concept of security has broadened over the past decades. Food security in South Africa is an imperative for human and non-human survival. In the contemporary political economy, there is a real nexus between ... -
Measuring quality gaps in TB screening in South Africa using standardised patient analysis
(MDPI, 2018)This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices ... -
South Africa’s hospital sector : old divisions and new developments
(Health Systems Trust, 2017)The hospital sector in South Africa mirrors deep inequalities in the country as a whole. The private, for-profit hospital sector is well resourced and caters to a population that tends to be wealthier, urban and more likely ... -
Human resources for health planning and national health insurance : the urgency and the opportunity
(Health Systems Trust, 2018)The implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) amplifies the urgent need for coordinated, comprehensive health workforce planning in South Africa. Planning for and estimating the cost of adequate human resources for ... -
Black living standards in South Africa before democracy : new evidence from height
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018)Very little income or wage data were systematically recorded about the living standards of South Africa’s black majority during much of the 20th century. We used four data sets to provide an alternative measure of living ...
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