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Cobus Burger

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First Name:Cobus
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Last Name:Burger
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RePEc Short-ID:pbu247
Terminal Degree:2009 Department of Economics; Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences; University of Stellenbosch (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Economics
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
University of Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, South Africa
http://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/
RePEc:edi:desunza (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Cobus Burger & Servaas van der Berg, 2011. "Modelling cognitive skills, ability and school quality to explain labour market earnings differentials," Working Papers 08/2011, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  2. Martin Gustafsson & Servaas van der Berg & Debra Shepherd & Cobus Burger, 2010. "The costs of illiteracy in South Africa," Working Papers 14/2010, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  3. Servaas van der Berg & Ada Jansen & Cobus Burger & Eldridge Moses & Hassan Essop, 2009. "The fiscal incidence of provision of free basic water," Working Papers 11/2009, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  4. Paula Armstrong & Cobus Burger, 2009. "Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Social Grants: An Analysis using Decomposition Techniques," Working Papers 15/2009, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  5. Cobus Burger, 2008. "Sample selection bias and the South African wage function," Working Papers 18/2008, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

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Working papers

  1. Cobus Burger & Servaas van der Berg, 2011. "Modelling cognitive skills, ability and school quality to explain labour market earnings differentials," Working Papers 08/2011, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Nicola Branson & Julia Garlick & David Lam & Murray Leibbrandt, 2012. "Education and Inequality: The South African Case," SALDRU Working Papers 75, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.

  2. Martin Gustafsson & Servaas van der Berg & Debra Shepherd & Cobus Burger, 2010. "The costs of illiteracy in South Africa," Working Papers 14/2010, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Debra Shepherd, 2015. "Learn to teach, teach to learn: A within-pupil across-subject approach to estimating the impact of teacher subject knowledge on South African grade 6 performance," Working Papers 01/2015, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

  3. Paula Armstrong & Cobus Burger, 2009. "Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Social Grants: An Analysis using Decomposition Techniques," Working Papers 15/2009, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Ivan Turok & Josh Budlender & Justin Visagie, 2017. "The Role of Informal Urban Settlements in Upward Mobility," Working Papers 201701, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
    2. Stanley Sharaunga, 2019. "The Effectiveness of Women's Skills Development to Household Poverty Reduction: The Case of Msinga Rural Areas," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(1-2), pages 73-98, July.
    3. Biyase, Mduduzi, 2018. "Assessing the impact of social grants on household welfare using morning after simulation and PSM approach," MPRA Paper 84477, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Priscilla Gutura, 2014. "Boosting Their Stomachs’: The Role of Social Grants in South Africa," Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, AMH International, vol. 6(2), pages 105-119.
    5. Shaukat Ansari, 2022. "Cash Transfers, International Finance and Neoliberal Debt Relations: The Case of Post‐apartheid South Africa," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(3), pages 551-575, May.
    6. Luca Tiberti & Hélène Maisonnave & Margaret Chitiga & Ramos Mabugu & Véronique Robichaud & Stewart Ngandu, 2013. "The Economy-wide Impacts of the South African Child Support Grant: a Micro-Simulation-Computable General Equilibrium Analysis," Cahiers de recherche 1303, CIRPEE.
    7. Rochelle Beukes & Ada Jansen & Mariana Moses & Derek Yu, 2017. "Exploring the Eligibility Criteria of the Child Support Grant and its Impact on Poverty," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 134(2), pages 511-529, November.
    8. Dorrit Posel & Michael Rogan, 2014. "Measured as Poor Versus Feeling Poor: Comparing Objective and Subjective Poverty Rates in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-133, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    9. Ivan Turok & Joshua Budlender & Justin Visagie, 2018. "Urban “slums” and social mobility," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 36(6), pages 703-725, October.
    10. Jude Okechukwu Chukwu, 2019. "Poverty Impact of Variations in Within-group and Between-group Inequality in Nigeria: New Estimates Using Two Household Survey Data," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(2), pages 539-549, January.
    11. Stanley Sharaunga & Maxwell Mudhara, 2021. "Analysis of Livelihood Strategies for Reducing Poverty Among Rural Women's Households: A Case Study of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(1), pages 127-150, January.
    12. Jude Okechukwu Chukwu, 2020. "New Estimates of Non-inclusiveness of Growth Using Two Nigerian Household Survey Data," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 152(1), pages 191-204, November.
    13. Jude Okechukwu Chukwu, 2017. "Estimating Inequality Semi-elasticity of Poverty Reduction in Nigeria," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 131(3), pages 1087-1101, April.

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  1. NEP-AFR: Africa (3) 2008-10-13 2010-07-17 2011-04-09
  2. NEP-EDU: Education (2) 2010-07-17 2011-04-09
  3. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (2) 2008-10-13 2011-04-09
  4. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (1) 2011-04-09
  5. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2011-04-09
  6. NEP-ECM: Econometrics (1) 2008-10-13
  7. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2010-07-17

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