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What do we expect from the MTBPS?

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

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

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

COVID-19 and the South African Economy

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

Matthew Stern, Christopher Loewald

Discussion Document

Small rise in employment is nothing to celebrate

Consensus is emerging that unemployment, inequality and poverty req...

Isaah Mhlanga

Business Day

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

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

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

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

Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...

Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...

Margaux Giannaros, Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

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

Rising unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa: temporary or persistent?

The fact that South Africa’s high unemployment rate continued to ri...

Rulof P. Burger, Dieter von Fintel

Policy Brief

How do we explain the persistently high rate of unemployment in South Africa? Exploring...

Our research attempted to quantify the magnitude of shifts in indus...

Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

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

A Historical CGE Simulation of the South African Economy from 2006–2013: Analysing Chan...

This paper uses a dynamic CGE model to help explain some apparent c...

Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Working Paper

High unemployment yet few small firms: The role of centralized bargaining in South Africa

Policy Paper 16 South Africa has very high unemployment, yet few ad...

Jeremy R. Magruder

Policy Paper

Day labourers, unemployment and socio-economic development in South Africa

Policy Paper 11 One of the most visible forms of unemployment is th...

Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw, Alet C. Harmse

Policy Paper