E24 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: E24

Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital

Request for Proposals: Back to inflation

Back to inflation In the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC),...

Call for Work

The effect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous findings, present-day e...

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

This paper estimates a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve for South ...

Nicola Viegi, Vincent Dadam

Working Paper

‘The Prince and the Pauper’: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in t...

This experiment contributes to the developing literature on the rel...

Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

The Prince and the Pauper: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in the...

There is limited theory and empirical evidence about the effects of...

Justine Burns, Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino

Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth in South Africa: The Case of Manufa...

This paper investigates the effect of exchange rate volatility on e...

Trust R. Mpofu, Eftychia Nikolaidou

Working Paper

The Sectoral Employment Intensity of Growth in South Africa

Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the So...

Njabulo Mkhize

Working Paper

Estimating a Philipps Curve for South Africa: A Bounded Random Walk Approach

Introduction The Phillips curve depicts the relationship between cu...

Modeste Some, Eric Schaling, Alain Kabundi

Policy Brief

Inflation, growth and employment in South Africa: Trends and trade-offs

It is often publicly contended that overly strict application of in...

Cobus Vermeulen

Working Paper

Rising unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa: temporary or persistent?

The fact that South Africa’s high unemployment rate continued to ri...

Rulof P. Burger, Dieter von Fintel

Policy Brief

How do we explain the persistently high rate of unemployment in South Africa? Exploring...

Our research attempted to quantify the magnitude of shifts in indus...

Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Policy Brief

Imperfect Labour Markets

Imperfect Labour Markets When: Thursday 19th February – Friday 20th...

Jan van Ours

Workshop

Transformation, Job Creation and Subsidies to Creative Industries: The Case of South Af...

Many governments have tried to stimulate economic growth via policy...

Jen D. Snowball, Alan Collins

Policy Brief

Wage subsidy in the DRC: A CGE analysis

This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers ...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Social capital as an engine of growth: Multisectoral modelling and implications

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating soci...

Youyou B. Bofota, Raouf Boucekkine, Alain P. Bala

Working Paper

High unemployment yet few small firms: The role of centralized bargaining in South Africa

Policy Paper 16 South Africa has very high unemployment, yet few ad...

Jeremy R. Magruder

Policy Paper

Households & Labour Markets

ERSA is pleased to announce a 2 day workshop to take place in Durba...

ERSA

Workshop

Changing factor market conditions in South Africa: The capital market - a sectoral desc...

Policy Paper (Interest) 07 We explore changing conditions in South ...

Policy Paper

Changing factor market conditions in South Africa: The labour market - a sectoral descr...

Policy Paper (Interest) 05 This paper presents descriptive evidence...

Policy Paper