Dieter von Fintel

Position: Senior Lecturer

Institution: University of Stellenbosch

Expertise: Labour, Microeconometrics

Dieter von Fintel is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, where he conducts research within the Research on Socioeconomic Policy (ReSEP) and Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP) groups. He is also a research affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA). His research focuses on microeconometric applications in the fields of labour, agriculture, poverty and inequality (both historically and in the present day).

Articles

Do low-paid workers’ wage increases raise unemployment – and is this relevant for the minimum wage debate?
How flexible is the South African labour market in the short and long run?
How did hunger levels in the former homelands catch up with the rest of South Africa? A hundred years after the Land Act of 1913
What caused the increase in unemployment in the late 1990s? Were education policies partly responsible?

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Dieter von Fintel

Articles

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

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

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?

Informal settlements: poverty traps or ladders to work?

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

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

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