PARALLEL SESSION ONE: 13:30-15:00

Parallel Session 1A:  Financial and Governmental Regulatory Issues (I)

Parallel Session 1B: Wages and Employment Conditions

Parallel Session 1C: Labour Market and Household Dynamics

Chair: Rashad Cassim, Statistics South Africa

Chair: Rudi Dicks, NALEDI

Chair: Ashraf Karriem,  The Presidency

Speaker 1: Tax Competition and
FDI: The Special Case of Developing Countries. Celine Azemar, University of Glasgow

Speaker 1: The Decision to
Employ Women on Wine Farms:
A Study of Wine Farms in the
Five Years after the Introduction
of a Statutory Minimum Wage.
Beatrice Conradie, University of
Cape Town

Speaker 1: Educational Policy, Growth and Labour Market in South Africa: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis. Hélène Maisonnave, Université de Rouen  & Bernard Decaluwé, Université Laval

Discussant: Nicola Viegi, University of Cape Town

Discussant: Liberty Mncube, Competition Commission South Africa

Discussant: Servaas van der Berg, University of Stellenbosch

Speaker 2: The Welfare Cost
of Banking Regulation. Fulbert
Tchana Tchana, University of
Cape Town

Speaker 2: Great Expectations:
Working Conditions Since the
End of Apartheid. Nicolas Pons-
Vignon, University of the Witwatersrand & Ward Anseeuw,
University of Pretoria

Speaker 2: IEconomic Growth, Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: The First Decade of Democracy. Haroon Bhorat & Carlene van der Westhuizen, DPRU, University of Cape Town

Discussant: Penelope Hawkins, FEASibility (Pty) Ltd

Discussant: Kalie Pauw, DPRU, University of Cape Town

Discussant: Ingrid Woolard, University of Cape Town

Speaker 3: The Regulatory Environment and its Impact on the Nature and Level of Economic Growth and Development in South Africa. Sonwabile Ngxiza, Researcher: PC on Provincial & Local Government

Speaker 3: The Lazy Sons? The Intra-Household Allocation of Work and Leisure in South Africa. Martin Wittenberg,
University of Cape Town

Discussant: Marina Mayer, South African Local Government Association

Discussant: Dorrit Posel, University of KwaZulu-Natal

PARALLEL SESSION TWO: 13:30-15:00

Parallel Session 2A:  Financial and Governmental Regulatory Issues (II)

Parallel Session 2B: Industry Effects of Trade
 

Parallel Session 2C: Educational Outcomes
 

Chair:  Carlene van der Westhuizen, DPRU, University of Cape Town

Chair: Rod Crompton, National Energy Regulator (South Africa)

Chair: Vusi Gumede, The Presidency

Speaker 1: Impact of Municipal
Regulations on SMMEs. Henlo
van Nieuwenhuyzen, AFReC
 

Speaker 1: Exporting, Labour Demand and Wages in South Africa. Neil Rankin & Volker Schoer, University of the Witwatersrand

Speaker 1: Determinants of Educational Achievement in Maths and Science in South Africa. Sha’ista Goga, Genesis Analytics

Discussant: Darma Mahadea,
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Discussant: Rob Davies, Human Sciences Research Council

Discussant: Morné Oosthuizen, DPRU, University of Cape Town

Speaker 2: Creating Statistical
Indicators of Macroprudential
Stability to Guide Financial
Regulation in South Africa.
Luthando Mayekiso, Statistics
South Africa

Speaker 2: Understanding the
Role of Trade in Changing Patterns
of Energy Use in South African Industry. Marcel Kohler,
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Speaker 2: The Importance of Socio-Economic Status in Determining Educational Achievement in South Africa. Stephen Taylor & Derek Yu, University of Stellenbosch
 

Discussant: Phillipe Burger, University of the Free State  

Discussant: Cornel van Basten, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies

Discussant: Hélène Maisonnave, Université de Rouen

Speaker 3: Overview of the
Financing and Impact of Capital
Expenditure by Provincial and
Local Government. David Savage, Independent Consultant

Speaker 3: Managing the Teacher Pay System: What the Local and International Data are Telling Us.
Martin Gustafsson, University of Stellenbosch & Firoz Patel, Department of Education, South Africa

Discussant: James Thurlow, International Food Policy
Research Institute

Discussant: Daniela Casale, University of KwaZulu-Natal

SPECIAL SESSION: 17:00 – 18:30

Debating Labour Market Regulation in South Africa

Chair: Nerine Kahn, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration of South Africa

Speaker 1: Paul Benjamin, University of Cape Town