Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Economics) by Title
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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
(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 ... -
The regulation of deposit-taking financial institutions : a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa
(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 ... -
Saving and wealth in the context of extreme inequality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Saving and wealth are important determinants for the wellbeing of individual households and the development of whole economies. Unlike flow variables like income and consumption, however, balance sheet ... -
Second-round effects on inflation, and underlying inflation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Supply shocks, especially food and energy price shocks, play a significant role in the evolution and dynamics of headline consumer price inflation in South Africa. Although headline inflation is the ... -
Social gradients, early childhood education and schools performing above the demographic expectation: empirical insights into educational issues
(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 ... -
Social mobility and cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa
(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 ... -
The South African business cycle and the application of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models
(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 ... -
Spatial heterogeneity, generational change and childhood socioeconomic status : microeconometric solutions to South African labour market questions
(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 ... -
State building in the colonial era : public revenue, expenditure and borrowing patterns in the Cape Colony, 1820-1910
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : We now know that state formation experiences outside Europe were not merely attenuated or failed versions of the European experiences (Herbst, 2000; Hoffman, 2015; Johnson and Koyama, 2016). The diverse ... -
A structural approach to modelling South African labour market decisions
(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 ... -
Tax revenue mobilisation : improving personal income tax compliance in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : South Africa, like any other country, strives towards greater domestic tax revenue mobilisation. As such, a lack of tax compliance is disconcerting, given its implications for the provision of public goods ... -
Teachers in the South African education system : an economic perspective
(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 ... -
Uncertainty and private sector response to economic development policy in post-genocide Rwanda
(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 ... -
Understanding poverty and inequality in Mozambique : the role of education and labour market status
(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 ... -
Using household surveys for deriving labour market, poverty and inequality trends in South Africa
(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, ... -
Wealth mobility, familial ties and migration : evidence from the Cape of Good Hope panel
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Mobility estimation is a means of quantifying how likely an individual is to improve their socio-economic status. Research concerning mobility has recently seen an upswing, mainly as a result of the rise ... -
Die Wirtschaft und die Arbeiterfrage Sudwestafrikas : von der Fruhzeit bis zum Ausbruch des zweiten Weltkrieges
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1947-12)No summary available.
