Trade liberalization and local labor market adjustment in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 448-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilge Erten ◽  
Jessica Leight ◽  
Fiona Tregenna
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Adjustment

Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Brazil

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Pavcnik ◽  
Andreas Blom ◽  
Pinelopi Goldberg ◽  
Norbert Schady
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Labor Market Adjustment

scholarly journals High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy R Magruder
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Very High

South Africa has very high unemployment, yet few adults work informally in small firms. This paper tests whether centralized bargaining, by which unionized large firms extend arbitration agreements to nonunionized smaller firms, contributes to this problem. While local labor market characteristics influence the location of these agreements, their coverage is spatially discontinuous, allowing identification by spatial regression discontinuity. Centralized bargaining agreements are found to decrease employment in an industry by 8–13 percent, with losses concentrated among small firms. These effects are not explained by resettlement to uncovered areas, and are robust to a wide variety of controls for unobserved heterogeneity. (JEL J52, K31, L25, O14, O15)

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