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South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

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

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

Call for Papers: Labour Economics

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

Call for Papers

Importance of employment programs for the youth in South Africa

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

Michelle Pleace, Jéssica Gagete-Miranda

Discussion Document

Why SA isn’t getting the growth it needs

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

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

COVID-19 and the South African Economy

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

Matthew Stern, Christopher Loewald

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...

Yusuf Yakubua, Ojo Adelakun, Kazeem Isah, Elias Udeaja, Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

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...

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

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

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

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

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

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

Margaux Giannaros, Filippo Taddei

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...

Cobus Vermeulen

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

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...

Filippo Taddei

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...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

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 ...

Margaux Giannaros, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Podcast

The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa

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

Lawrence Edwards, Gibson Mudiriza

Working Paper

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana?

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

Adeola Oyenubi

Policy Brief

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

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

Junita Henry, Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

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...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

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...

Jean L. Erero

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...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

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...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

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

Labour Market and Monetary Policy in South Africa

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

Vincent Dadam, Nicola Viegi

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

The role of international institutions of global governance in steering globalization

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

Charles V. R. Wait, T. A. Thibane

Working Paper

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

Imperfect Labour Markets

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

Jan van Ours

Workshop

Optimal Monetary Policy with Learning by Doing

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

Chris Redl

Working Paper

The characteristics of volunteers in South Africa

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

Waldo F. Krugell, Ferdinand Niyimbanira

Working Paper

Labour Economics

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

Submit paper: 22 August 2014

Tito Boeri, Jan van Ours

Workshop