Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Author "Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes)"

Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Author "Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes)"

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  • Alternative definitions of the budget deficit and its impact on the sustainability of fiscal policy in South Africa 
    Jacobs, Davina Frederika; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957- (Blackwell, 2002-03)
    This paper investigates the usefulness of different definitions of the budget deficit and their impact on fiscal sustainability. The analysis shows that a number of alternative definitions of the budget deficit are useful, ...
  • Aspects of fiscal devolution in South Africa 
    Grote, M.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Truu, M.L.; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Van Tonder, Jurie J. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-03)
    This paper is the joint product of a think tank, initiated in the public sector and extended to a group of academics. It may be seen as the executive summary of a rather voluminous report for internal use in the Department ...
  • The benefit of aligning South Africa’s personal income tax thresholds and brackets with that of its peers using a micro-simulation tax model 
    Jordaan, Yolanda; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2018-10)
    BACKGROUND : This article is based on a PhD study in which a microsimulation (MS) tax model was constructed to measure the revenue and tax efficiency effects of adjustments to marginal tax rates on individual income. AIM ...
  • Countercyclical fiscal policy in South Africa : role and impact of automatic fiscal stabilisers 
    Swanepoel, J.A.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-12)
    As actual budget balances reflect both cyclical developments and discretionary measures, they are not very useful when seeking to assess the orientation of underlying fiscal policy and possible structural imbalances in ...
  • The determinants of public expenditure and expenditure on education in particular in a selection of African countries 
    Akanbi, Olusegun Ayodele; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Juta, 2010-03)
    This study reports on research aimed at measuring the drivers behind public expenditure with specific reference to education expenditure in Africa. The empirical estimations are carried out using a public choice model on ...
  • Economic growth and development constraints in Africa 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-11)
    The slowing growth throughout the world over the past number of quarters has been uncomfortable for advanced countries, but a real source of hardship to many developing countries and a real setback to the fight against ...
  • Economic growth and the structure of taxes in South Africa : 1960-2002 
    Koch, Steven F.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Van Tonder, Jurie J. (Blackwell, 2005-06)
    One tenet of taxation is its distorting effect on economic behaviour. Despite the economic inefficiencies resulting from taxation, it is widely believed that taxes impact minimally on the economy's growth rate. Evidence ...
  • Finding the optimum level of taxes in South Africa : a balanced budget approach 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Van Heerden, Yolande (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2009-11)
    This article is primarily concerned with assessing the optimum rate of government intervention by means of tax revenue policies that would facilitate the full growth potential of the South African economy, using time ...
  • The fiscal impact of unemployment insurance programmes as automatic stabilisers : the South African experience 
    Swanepoel, J.A.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-12)
    Theoretically, unemployment insurance (UI) contributions and benefits act in tandem to serve as counterbalances to the direction of the economy. Government transfers to households to cover costs related to unemployment are ...
  • Fiscal regime changes and the sustainability of fiscal imbalance in South Africa : a smooth transition error-correction approach 
    Jibao, Samuel Sangawulo; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Naraidoo, Ruthira (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, 2012)
    In addition to the conventional linear cointegration test, this paper tests the asymmetry relationship between fiscal revenue and expenditure, by making a distinction between the adjustment of positive (budget surplus) and ...
  • Foreign direct investment flows and fiscal discipline in South Africa 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Robinson, Z. Clausen; De Wet, Theuns J.; Robinson, Zurika (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-06)
    This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa during the past 30 years. Casual empirical analysis reveals a definite linkage between FDI flows and variables such as ...
  • Generational accounting : a comparison between various taxes' incidence on the young and old in South Africa 
    Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2000)
    This article focuses on the applicability of intergenerational accounting to contribute towards more effective fiscal policy for the correction of wealth imbalances in South Africa. Three scenarios are tested using a general ...
  • Government revenue and expenditure nexus in South Africa 
    Nyamongo, M.E. (Nyamongo Esman); Sichei, Moses Muse; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Juta, 2007-06)
    This paper investigates the nexus between government expenditure and government revenue in South Africa within the framework of a vector autoregressive (VAR) approach. It uses the Hylleberg et al. (1990) method to test for ...
  • Impact of tax induced retirement benefit schemes on consumption and saving in South Africa 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Nhabinde, V.C. (Vasco Correia) (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2009-12)
    This article empirically analyses the impact that tax induced retirement benefits (pension payouts) have on contractual saving and consumption behaviour in South Africa. By using a basic extended Ando-Modigliani life cycle ...
  • Leadership towards a just economic society 
    Lombard, J.A. (Johannes Anthonie); Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This actuality article on leadership argues for the need to move towards a just economic society. The implications of different terms are considered within a conceptual framework. This framework is essential for a better ...
  • The nonparametric relationship between oil and South African agricultural prices 
    Ajmi, Ahdi N.; Gupta, Rangan; Kruger, Monique; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Walters, Leone (Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e, 2016-05)
    The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between agricultural prices in South Africa and global oil prices. A nonlinear Granger causality test based on moment conditions, introduced by Nishiyama ...
  • The quality of governance and education spending in Africa 
    Nyamongo, M.E. (Nyamongo Esman); Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, 2010)
    This study investigates the effects of the quality of governance, namely corruption, political instability and democracy, on the public budget allocation to education by using data for a panel of 28 African countries over ...
  • Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) and the housing construction industry : a possible solution to South Africa's socio-economic problems 
    Joubert, C.S.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Blignaut, James Nelson (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1999-03)
    South Africa as a developing country faces many socio-economic problems like high unemployment, low levels of working skills, poverty and rampant crime. In this paper it is argued that by targeting SMMEs both in general ...
  • The South African tax mix and economic growth 
    De Wet, Albertus Hendrik; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Koch, Steven F. (Juta, 2005-06)
    The research reported in this paper suggests that government fiscal policy can influence economic growth through alterations in the tax mix and the overall size of government spending. The authors estimate the impact on ...
  • Tax reform and the progressivity of personal income tax in South Africa 
    Nyamongo, M.E. (Nyamongo Esman); Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Blackwell, 2007-09)
    This paper investigates the progressivity of personal income tax in South Africa over the period 1989 to 2003. We use the effective, redistributive and disproportionality measures of progressivity and find that progressivity ...