scholarly journals COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Support and Effects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Maré ◽  
Dean R. Hyslop
Keyword(s):  
Wage Subsidy

scholarly journals Reducing youth unemployment beyond the Youth Wage Subsidy: A study of Simtech apprentices

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mogantheran Naidoo ◽  
Muhammad E. Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Wage Subsidy ◽  
Permanent Employment ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Managerial Implications

Orientation: South Africa currently has the twin challenges of worsening youth unemployment and scarce skills that threaten its economic and social stability. Artisanal trades are an occupation category that strongly reflects this current problem. Simtech Training Institute in Durban, the study setting, currently trains artisan apprentices and facilitates their internship work placements.Research purpose: The objective of this study was to identify some of the critical success factors that differentiated Simtech artisan apprentices who obtained permanent employment, compared to those who are currently unemployed.Motivation for the study: The main motivation of the study was to improve the conversion rate of artisan apprentices to permanently employed artisans.Research design, approach and method: The study was a cross-sectional study conducted among 51 artisan apprentices who had graduated over the past 3 years at Simtech and who were selected randomly. An online questionnaire comprising primarily Likert scale type questions was utilised to obtain the responses from the sample. Factor analysis was used to remove scale items from the independent variables that did not impact the variability sufficiently. Then the remaining scale items that impacted variability significantly were combined and categorised as new composite independent variables. Logistic regression analysis identified success factors for permanent employment of Simtech graduates.Main findings: Internship or workplace environment had a statistically significant impact on permanent employment. Youth work ethic had a minor impact on permanent employment status – albeit not a statistically significant one.Practical/managerial implications: These findings showed that improving the internship/ workplace environment can reduce youth unemployment and address skills scarcity.Contribution: Internship host companies and other stakeholders need to urgently focus on improving the quality of the internship/workplace environment experienced by artisan apprentices rather than just on the intake number of artisan apprentices that the Youth Wage Subsidy has encouraged to date.

Sector‐specific sticky wages and wage subsidy: a note

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabir C. Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Wage Subsidy ◽  
Sticky Wages

Market Effects of a Wage Subsidy

ILR Review ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Barth
Keyword(s):  
Wage Subsidy ◽  
Market Effects

scholarly journals Employers and the Implementation of Active Labor Market Policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard ◽  
Jon Lystlund Halkjær
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Wage Subsidy ◽  
Subsidy Scheme ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Active Labor ◽  
Active Labor Market Policies ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Active Labor Market

Active labor market policies (ALMPs) are an important instrument for governments in dealing with the new challenges of globalization, flexibilization, and individualization of labor markets. Politics and research has focused on the supply-side of the labor market, that is, regulating the rights and obligations of the target groups of ALMPs (mainly unemployed and inactive persons). The role and behavior of employers is under-researched and under-theorized in the vast literature on ALMPs and industrial relations. In this article, we analyze ALMPs from the employers’ perspective by examining the determinants of firms’ participation in providing wage subsidy jobs for the unemployed. First, we examine the historical background to the introduction and development of wage subsidy schemes as an important ALMP instrument in Denmark. Second, we derive theoretical arguments and hypotheses about employers’ participation in ALMPs from selected theories. Third, we use data from a survey of Danish firms conducted in 2013 to characterize the firms that are engaged in implementing wage subsidy jobs and hypotheses are tested using a binary logistical regression to establish why firms voluntarily engage in reintegrating unemployed back into the labor market. We find that the firms which are most likely to participate in the wage subsidy scheme are characterized by many unskilled workers, a higher coverage of collective agreements, a deteriorating economic situation, a Danish ownership structure, and are especially found in the public sector. This shows that the preference formation of firms is more complex than scholars often assume.

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