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Analysing job creation effects of scaling up infrastructure spending in South Africa

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  • Margaret Chitiga
  • Ramos Mabugu
  • Helene Maisonnave

    (ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université)

Abstract

In a first for South Africa, this article draws on literature on infrastructure productivity to model dynamic economy-wide employment impacts of infrastructure investment funded with different fiscal tools. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model, the South African investment plan is modelled, given the infrastructure externality. Alternative fiscal scenarios to finance the policy are modelled in the article. In the long run, unemployment decreases for all types of workers under one of the scenarios. In the short run, only elementary occupation workers benefit from a decrease in unemployment; for the rest, unemployment rises.

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  • Margaret Chitiga & Ramos Mabugu & Helene Maisonnave, 2016. "Analysing job creation effects of scaling up infrastructure spending in South Africa," Post-Print hal-02314219, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02314219
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2015.1120650
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    Keywords

    infrastructure scale up; externalities; South Africa JEL Classification D58; H59; H54; dynamic computable general equilibrium model; employment; Fiscal policies; D92;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • H59 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Other

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