J60 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: J60

Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: General

Household debt and consumption dynamics: A non-developed world view following the ﬁnanc...

According to recent macroeconomic evidence (Bosch and Koch 2020b; F...

Matthew W. Clance, Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’...

At a time when tensions are rising due to growing inequality and un...

Margaux Giannaros, Andreas Wörgötter

Podcast

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: and Addressing low...

Matthew Simmonds, Witness Simbanegavi, Sherwin Gabriel, Romain A. Duval, Murray Leibbrandt, Andreas Wörgötter

Dialogue

Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

Policy Paper 27 South Africa’s stubbornly low labour utilisation ra...

Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Paper

Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Margaux Giannaros, Timothy Köhler

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on why South Africa’s unemployment rate went down this Covid-Quarter

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

Using a novel dataset of genealogical records, we make the first at...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

Policy Brief

Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off

In the absence of historical income or education data, the change i...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

Working Paper