Black Worker Attitudes: Political Options, Capitalism & Investment in South Africa

Human rights, political instability and investment in South Africa: a note

This paper extends the model of Fielding (1999), which is designed to explain changes in investment in South Africa during the Apartheid period, by allowing a role for indicators of political instability and political and civil rights, as measured by Fedderke et al. (1999). The conclusions based on estimation of the original model are robust to the inclusion of the political factors, but these ...

Authoritarianism and race attitudes in South Africa.

Generation Z’s Attitudes in South Africa

The tremendous proliferation of social media (such as Facebook) has provided digital information and communications technology (ICT) platforms that enable Generation Z to instantaneously and uninterruptedly interactive one another and the rest of the globe. The primary aim of this research is to investigate the influence of Facebook commercial communications (FCC) on the hierarchy-of-effects mo...

Share capitalism and worker wellbeing⋆, ⋆⋆

We show that worker wellbeing is determined not only by the amount of compensation workers receive but also by how compensation is determined. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been preoccupied with individual performance-related pay, we find that the receipt of a range of group-performance schemes (profit shares, group bonuses and share ownership) is associated with highe...

Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa

Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow domestic firms...