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Gracelin Baskaran on how environmental policies may impact South African trade

One month after COP28, we record our first podcast of 2024. As the ...

Margaux Giannaros, Gracelin Baskaran

Podcast

What do we expect from the MTBPS?

Prior to last year’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) th...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...

Working Paper 886 The study investigates the potential welfare effe...

Nicky Nicholls, Kehinde O. Omotoso, Eleni Yitbarek, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Request for Proposals: The role of cities as drivers of growth and employment

Background Urbanization in South Africa is expected to reach 80% by...

Call for Work

Monitoring South Africa’s metropolitan economies: A survey of the data landscape

Discussion Document 13 Disparities in data across different metropo...

Dieter von Fintel

Discussion Document

The impact of mobile phones on change in employment status in South Africa

Research on the impact of mobile phones on change in employment sta...

Zubair Patel, Lukasz Grzybowski

Workshop Presentation

Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Margaux Giannaros, Channing Arndt

Podcast

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: , by Channing Arndt, Robert ...

Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, IFPRI, GIZ, ERSA, Channing Arndt

Dialogue

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...

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

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...

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...

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Female household headship and poverty in South Africa: an employment-based analysis

Female household headship is generally associated with higher pover...

Catherine Ndinda, Chijioke O. Nwosu

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

Self-selection in migration: The role of unobservable skills of Gauteng’s migrant popul...

The present study sought to investigate self-selection among intern...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Nwabisa Nontenja

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

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

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

Chijioke O. Nwosu

Working Paper

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

Father's Employment and Sons' Stature: The Long Run Effects of a Positive Regional Empl...

It is now well known that early life environmental conditions affec...

Martine Mariotti

Policy Brief

The South African labour market, 1995-2013

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

Mariana Moses, Lyle Festus, Derek Yu, Atoko Kasongo

Working Paper

The Impact of Obesity on Employment in South Africa

Obesity is a growing health problem in South Africa. This health pr...

Abieyuwa Ohonba, Naiefa Rashied, Modeste Some

Working Paper

Achieving Higher Growth and Employment: Policy options for South Africa

Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model, the paper pro...

David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov

Working Paper

Small business development, entrepreneurship and expanding the business sector in a dev...

Policy Paper (Interest) 14 A dynamic small business sector can make...

John M. Luiz

Policy Paper

The Role of Mining in the South African Economy

Policy Paper (Interest) 09 This paper examines the contribution of ...

Policy Paper