The Newly Unemployed and the UIF Take-up Rate : Implications for the Wage Subsidy Proposal in South Africa

This paper investigates the take-up rate or claim-waiting period rate of the unemployed under the South African Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) system. The goal is to identify disincentive effects that income replacement rates (IRR) and accumulat...

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Main Authors: Bhorat, Haroon, Tseng, David
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
APR
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/900451468294071859/The-newly-unemployed-and-the-UIF-take-up-rate-implications-for-the-wage-subsidy-proposal-in-South-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27455