This paper conducts an analysis of labour market dynamics in South Africa during the initial
period of lockdown, from the end of March to the end of April 2020, using the first wave of the …

We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We
describe how changes in labour supply interacted with stagnant labour demand to produce …

South Africa's high unemployment and small informal economy has been attributed to
barriers to entry in informal labour markets. We develop a general equilibrium model based …

At the time of the transition to democracy in 1994, the South African social security system
was already notably well developed for a middle-income country (Case and Deaton 1998; …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis that will exacerbate the South African
unemployment crisis. As a temporary measure, the lockdown has prevented a substantial …

This study compares measures of labour migration and remittance receipt in the National
Income Dynamics Study with measures generated using earlier national household surveys …

Abstract Using South Africa's first nationally representative panel data set, I find that the
presence of pension recipients in the household reduces the probability of employment of …

This paper surveys the South African and international literature surrounding the impact of
cash transfers on labour supply. We find that although social transfers are condemned for …

In the present study we contrast materialistic (ie, income and economic inequality) and
psychosocial (ie, social circumstances) pathway perspectives on whether volunteering while …

This paper presents a critical survey and meta-analysis of the South African academic
literature on unemployment. It asks whether the research has produced a coherent …