Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects

Breytenbach and De Villiers Supply elasticity within the South African ICT labour market Supply elasticity within the South African ICT labour market

Creating a sufficient, sustained supply of tertiary level ICT skills at graduate level to stimulate growth in the developing South African economy is an important concern for all stakeholders involved in the South African ICT labour market. This article furthers the discourse on the much discussed ICT graduate shortage in South Africa by presenting a neoclassical labour market analysis of the d...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

Modelling human resources policies with Markov models: an illustration with the South African nursing labour market.

This article proposes a modelling framework to simulate and assess the immediate and long-term effects of policy interventions to attract and retain nurses in rural areas. Specifically, we use a Markov model to model the dynamics of movements of health care workers in a professional labour market. A model is developed to simulate the movements of South African nurses between different segments ...

An analysis of Cross-correlations in South African Market data

We apply random matrix theory (RMT) to the analysis of an emerging market. In particular we analyse correlation matrices C constructed from 10 years of daily data for stocks listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from January 1993 to December 2002. We test the spectral properties of C against random matrix predictions and find some agreement between the distributions of eigenvalues, ne...

An empirical analysis of manufacturing competitive factors and offshoring

Offshoring is one of the defining phenomena of 21st century manufacturing. It attracts significant attention in academic, business, and social circles in both developed and developing economies. Despite the relevance of this phenomenon, there is limited research exploring to what extent offshoring effort is explained by manufacturing strategy. In this study I investigate whether offshoring effo...