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  Social gradients, early childhood education and schools performing above the demographic expectation: empirical insights into educational issues 

  Kotze, Janeli (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : This dissertation exploits the wide variety of datasets available on the South African education system to consider select education issues. The purpose of this is to contribute relevant empirical research ...
  
  
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  The private credit market of the Cape Colony, 1673-1834: wealth, property rights, and social networks 

  Swanepoel, Christie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : Please refer to full text for abstract.
  
  
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  Measuring social and economic mobility in South Africa: new approaches to well-known survey data concerns 

  Zoch, Asmus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : The aim of this dissertation is measuring economic and social mobility in South Africa. The work from this thesis shows that various problems with survey responses can produce misleading impressions of ...
  
  
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  An empirical analysis of poverty, inequality and the labour market in Malawi 

  Gondwe, Anderson Sawira (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis is a consolidation of three related studies on Malawi. The first study contains spatial and temporal comparisons of poverty and inequality in Malawi using two non-monetary dimensions, namely ...
  
  
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  The open door of learning – access restricted: school effectiveness and efficiency across the South African education system 

  Shepherd, Debra Lynne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  No abstract available.
  
  
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  An institutional assessment of the role of sovereign wealth funds in managing resource revenues 

  Rietveld, Malan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : This dissertation studies the contribution of sovereign wealth funds to the management of fiscal revenues derived from the extraction of natural resources. The literature on the “resource curse” has ...
  
  
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  The assessment and improvement of the health status of vulnerable and low income individuals in South Africa: an analysis using quantitative and experimental methods 

  Rossouw, Laura (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : More than two decades after the end of apartheid, inequalities in health across socioeconomic subgroups are still a pervasive and persistent trend. South Africa also faces a high burden of disease which ...
  
  
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  Firm productivity, international trade and competition: using micro data to examine the dynamics of South African firms 

  Naughtin, Tasha Lynn (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)

  ENGLISH SUMMARY : Exports matter for economic growth. Exporting is associated with higher levels of employment, innovation, and investment. The South African government recognises the role of exports in stimulating the ...
  
  
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  An economic perspective on school leadership and teachers' unions in South Africa 

  Wills, Gabrielle (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation considers two factors that are considered critical to disrupting an existing culture of inefficiency in the production of learning in South Africa, namely school leadership and teachers’ ...
  
  
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  A structural approach to modelling South African labour market decisions 

  Burger, Cobus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Youth unemployment is high in South Africa and especially high among black males. The slow absorption of young black males into the employment is somewhat surprising given that the descriptive statistics ...
  
  
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  A demographic history of settler South Africa 

  Cilliers, Jeanne Alexandra (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Economic incentives affect demographic outcomes. That is to say, fertility, mortality, migration and mobility are a result of economic performance, growth and inequality. While demographic changes may be ...
  
  
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  Healthcare reform priorities for South Africa : four essays on the financing, delivery and user acceptability of healthcare 

  Smith, Anna Maria (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: peers, South Africa is achieving health outcomes that are comparable to those of low-income countries. This dissertation contains four essays on the financing, user acceptability and delivery of ...
  
  
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  Graduate unemployment, higher education access and success, and teacher production in South Africa 

  Van Broekhuizen, Hendrik (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the context of South Africa’s socio-economic challenges, Higher Education (HE) has a key role to play, not just in terms of producing su cient numbers of graduates and the scarce skills that are ...
  
  
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  Teachers in the South African education system : an economic perspective 

  Armstrong, Paula Louise (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: ABSTRACT Chapter 1 investigates teacher wages in the South African labour market, in order to ascertain whether teaching is a financially attractive profession, and whether high ability individuals are ...
  
  
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  Social mobility and cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa 

  Von Fintel, Marisa (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Twenty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. Socio-economic polarisation is entrenched by the lack of social capital and interactions across ...
  
  
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  Education quality in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa : an economic approach 

  Spaull, Nicholas (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Education has always occupied a central role in the discipline of economics, featuring prominently in the theoretical constructs of the discipline and, more recently, in their empirical applications. While ...
  
  
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  The South African business cycle and the application of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models 

  Kotze, Kevin Lawrence (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation considers the use of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models for the analysis of South African macroeconomic business cycle phenomena. It includes four separate, but ...
  
  
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  Spatial heterogeneity, generational change and childhood socioeconomic status : microeconometric solutions to South African labour market questions 

  Von Fintel, Dieter (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Microeconometric techniques have improved understanding of South Africa’s labour market substantially in the last two decades. This dissertation adds to this evidence by considering three separate labour ...
  
  
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  The influence of fiscal policymaking frameworks on fiscal outcomes : evidence from the European Union 

  Siebrits, Franz Krige (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the potential of centralised, top-down procedural rules (also known as budget-process rules) and independent fiscal councils to complement numerical fiscal rules as devices ...
  
  
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  Education and country growth models 

  Gustafsson, Martin Anders (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The over-arching concern of the three parts of the dissertation is how economics can and should influence education policymaking, the emphasis on the economics side being models of country development ...
  
  
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  The reconstruction of regional systems of innovation to allow the evolution of the biotechnology industry in non-high technology regions : the case of the Western Cape region in South Africa 

  Uctu, Ramazan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the efforts of stakeholders in a regional innovation system (RIS) to reconstruct the system to enable the development of the nascent biotechnology industry in the Western Cape ...
  
  
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  Essays on dynamic macroeconomics 

  Steinbach, Max Rudibert (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the first essay of this thesis, a medium scale DSGE model is developed and estimated for the South African economy. When used for forecasting, the model is found to outperform private sector economists ...
  
  
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  Macroeconomic consequences of fiscal deficits in developing countries : a comparative study of Zimbabwe and selected African countries (1980-2008) 

  Mashakada, Tapiwa Leonard Jaison (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  Fiscal deficits, which are the end result of fiscal indiscipline and lack of fiscal space, have been the focus of fiscal and macroeconomic adjustment in developed and developing countries. Developments in the euro zone ...
  
  
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  Uncertainty and private sector response to economic development policy in post-genocide Rwanda 

  Nsanzabaganwa, Monique (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research explored factors underlying successful implementation of development policy. It applied new institutional economic analysis to policy-making processes viewed from the theory, methodology ...
  
  
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  Understanding poverty and inequality in Mozambique : the role of education and labour market status 

  Da Maia, Carlos Chadreque Penicela (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis deals with poverty and inequality in Mozambique and with the link of education to wellbeing through the labour market. Earlier studies that analysed well-being in Mozambique drew counter-intuitive ...
  
  
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  Modelling the ecological-economic impacts of restoring natural capital, with a special focus on water and agriculture, at eight sites in South Africa 

  Crookes, Douglas John (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The restoration of natural capital has ecological, hydrological and economic benefits. Are these benefits greater than the costs of restoration when compared across a range of dissimilar sites? This study ...
  
  
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  Using household surveys for deriving labour market, poverty and inequality trends in South Africa 

  Yu, Kwan Cheung Derek (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to evaluate the extent to which South Africa achieve the objectives of poverty and inequality reduction as well as job creation, up-to-date and reliable data are required. Since the transition, ...
  
  
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  Mannekragontwikkeling in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika met besondere verwysing na aspekte van formele tegniese en beroepsonderwys van die geemplojeerde in die Vrystaat 

  Van Lill, J. J. (Jacob Jacobus) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1982-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Manpower development is a subsection of economic planning. The aim of this study was to make a contribution to the existing perception of the education planning and economic planning of manpower ...
  
  
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  The regulation of deposit-taking financial institutions : a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa 

  Jordaan, Michael (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1997-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Standard financial literature contains various explanations for the unique role of deposit-taking intermediaries in an economy. None of these reasons adequately explains the extensive degree of banking ...
  
  
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  Economic aspects of scientific research in South Africa 

  Van Wyk, Rias Johann (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1970-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: see item for full text AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: sien item vir volteks.
  
  

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