Analysing job creation effects of scaling up infrastructure spending in South Africa
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Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
Mabugu, Ramos
Maisonnave, Hélène
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Routledge
Abstract
In a first for South Africa, this article raws 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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Fiscal policies, Employment, Dynamic computable general equilibrium model, Infrastructure scale up, Externalities, South Africa (SA)
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu & Hélène Maisonnave (2016) Analysing job
creation effects of scaling up infrastructure spending in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 33:2, 186-202, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2015.1120650.