Andrew Kerr

TL;DR: This paper found that unobserved individual market ability is by far the most important factor explaining the variance of earnings in two urban African labor markets, those of Ghana and Tanzania, and that the gap between private wage employment and civil servants is about 50% with controls for enterprise size.

TL;DR: This paper used the Quarterly Employment Survey conducted by Statistics South Africa that allows them to explore how South African enterprises create and destroy jobs, shedding light on many of the policy questions that are relevant in a high unemployment society like South Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, worker and job flows are estimated using anonymised IRP5 tax certificate data from the South African Revenue Service from the 2011-2014 tax years and contains information on more than 12 million individuals and nearly 300,000 firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the monetary and time costs of commuting to work in South African cities and how these have changed in the post-Apartheid era, and interpret these results in light of a paper by Brueckner, who used a simple urban model to suggest that location and commuting patterns by race could change as a result of the repeal of Apartheid era legislation such as the Group Areas Act that made it impossible for black South Africans to live near the centre of cities.

TL;DR: Why models are useful for answering complex questions is outlined, a stocktake of energy-sector and multi-sector models used for climate change mitigation modelling in New Zealand is provided, and suggestions for improving future modelling work are made.