Taryn Dinkelman

Position: Assistant Professor

Institution: Dartmouth College

Expertise: Labour markets and development economics

Taryn Dinkelman is an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States of America. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan, an M.Comm from the University of the Witwatersrand and a B.A. from Rhodes University. Her research focuses on the economics of education, minimum wage laws, labour markets and poverty.

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Enforcement and compliance: the case of minimum wages and mandatory contracts for domestic workers

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Taryn Dinkelman

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Creating jobs, reducing poverty I: Why the informal sector should be taken seriously and enabled properly

What is the role of manufacturing in boosting economic growth and employment in South Africa?

Who are the middle class in South Africa? Does it matter for policy?

Why are foreign-run spaza shops more successful? The rapidly changing spaza sector in South Africa

Informal settlements: poverty traps or ladders to work?

Adcorp’s employment and unemployment figures are not taken seriously by researchers – yet they can do much harm

How much is inequality reduced by progressive taxation and government spending?

How high is graduate unemployment in South Africa? A much-needed update

A job in the informal sector reduces poverty about as much as a job in the formal sector

Who creates jobs, who destroys jobs? Small firms, large firms and labour market rigidity