South Africa's youth unemployment and the employment tax incentive: an empirical re-evaluation

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dc.contributor.authorMoeletsi, Tlhalefang
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T08:45:01Z
dc.date.available2019-07-16T08:45:01Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionResearch Report (ECON 7008) weighing 25% and submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Master of Commerce specializing in Economic Science (CC011) University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management School of Economic and Business Science 2017en_ZA
dc.description.abstractOur paper uses a Difference-in-Difference estimator to investigate the impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive after the first year of implementation. We use birth cohort bands to track the difference in employment probabilities of subgroups of targeted workers and untargeted workers. We find evidence of improvements in the employment prospects of young workers in the region of 2 percentage points. Our results were largest for African males. We then perform a placebo and find no evidence that differences in employment probabilities of younger workers and older workers were present before implementation. Possible deadweight loss, displacement and measurement effects limit the extent to which we can attribute changes in employment probabilities to evidence that “new” jobs were “created” by the programmeen_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (36 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationMoeletsi, Wycliff Tlhalefang, (2017) South Africa's youth unemployment and the employment tax incentive :an empirical re-evaluation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27665
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27665
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshLabor laws and legislation--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshYouth--Employment--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshPayroll tax--Law and legislation--South Africa
dc.titleSouth Africa's youth unemployment and the employment tax incentive: an empirical re-evaluationen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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