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South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Published: 23 June 2023

Discussion Document

Call for Papers: Labour Economics

The Microeconomics, Labour and Inequality Group is pleased to annou...

Published: 22 June 2023

Call for Papers

Importance of employment programs for the youth in South Africa

Discussion Document 08 The present report reviews the literature on...

Published: 27 January 2023

Discussion Document

Why SA isn’t getting the growth it needs

The Covid Project — a research project to assess SA’s economic pros...

Published: 10 September 2022

Business Live

COVID-19 and the South African Economy

Discussion Document 02 As South Africa looks to navigate itself out...

Published: 1 September 2022

Discussion Document

Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price-exchange rate-...

Motivated by the distinctive paradoxical nature of the Nigerian eco...

Published: 8 March 2022

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 30 July 2021

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...

Published: 23 July 2021

Podcast

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: Recovering from COV...

Published: 16 July 2021

Dialogue

Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

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

Published: 28 June 2021

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...

Published: 21 May 2021

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on SA’s Budget Speech: adopting a business-friendly approach

After the challenges raised by Covid-19 and the increasing risks co...

Published: 5 March 2021

Podcast

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

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

Published: 1 February 2021

Working Paper

Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

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

Published: 20 January 2021

Working Paper

Dr Filippo Taddei on Structural Reforms in Italy: what can South Africa learn?

After its sovereign debt crisis in 2011, Italy experienced its wors...

Published: 9 December 2020

Podcast

‘Quantitative Easing' and central bank asset purchases in South Africa: A DSGE approach

This paper develops a small open-economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic g...

Published: 30 November 2020

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...

Published: 2 October 2020

Podcast

The Italian jobs act – Lessons and challenges from Structural Reforms in Italy by Filip...

The topic for the first virtual meeting is Labour Market Reforms fo...

Published: 5 September 2020

Webinar

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Published: 31 July 2020

Working Paper

Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell on the Fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa:...

In this podcast Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell, a Policy Associate at ERSA ...

Published: 30 April 2020

Podcast

The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa

Despite the ending of apartheid, regional wage disparities remain p...

Published: 2 April 2020

Working Paper

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana?

The income gap between the self-employed and wage earners is of int...

Published: 21 May 2019

Policy Brief

Obesity Based Labour Market Discrimination in South Africa: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

There is increasing concern regarding obesity related healthcare co...

Published: 24 August 2017

Working Paper

Labour market impact of internal in-migration: A district level analysis of South Africa

Despite the lack of clarity in literature with regards to the quest...

Published: 21 February 2017

Working Paper

National minimum wage in South Africa: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis

This paper analyses the economy-wide impact of the national minimum...

Published: 22 November 2016

Policy Brief

Birth order effects on education attainment and child labour: Evidence from Lesotho

Education (both school enrolment and achievement) is low in much of...

Published: 22 November 2016

Policy Brief

Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Child Labour: Evidence from Lesotho

This paper examines the e ffect of birth order on educational attai...

Published: 8 July 2016

Working Paper

The impact of health on the employment and earnings of young South Africans

This paper estimates the impact of health on employment and earning...

Published: 22 April 2016

Working Paper

Labour Market and Monetary Policy in South Africa

Unemployment is the defining characteristic of the South African ec...

Published: 25 September 2015

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 14 September 2015

Working Paper

The role of international institutions of global governance in steering globalization

Globalization is a historical process, as it traces back to the 14t...

Published: 17 July 2015

Working Paper

The South African labour market, 1995-2013

This paper investigates the changes in the South African labour mar...

Published: 3 February 2015

Working Paper

Imperfect Labour Markets

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

Published: 22 January 2015

Workshop

Optimal Monetary Policy with Learning by Doing

I study the implications of learning by doing in production for opt...

Published: 15 January 2015

Working Paper

The characteristics of volunteers in South Africa

Volunteers are people who supply labour for the production of goods...

Published: 17 November 2014

Working Paper

Labour Economics

The Microeconomics, Labour and Inequality Group is pleased to annou...

Submit paper: 22 August 2014

Published: 11 August 2014

Workshop