Keyword: Employment

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 ...
Wandile Sihlobo, Tendai Gwatidzo, Ann Bernstein, Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, 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...
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
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
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
The Role of Mining in the South African Economy
Policy Paper (Interest) 09 This paper examines the contribution of ...
Policy 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