Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’s labour market

July 23, 2021 00:45:00
Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’s labour market
Economic Research Southern Africa
Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’s labour market

Jul 23 2021 | 00:45:00

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Show Notes

At a time when tensions are rising due to growing inequality and unemployment, ERSA’s host is joined by Prof. Andreas Wörgötter from the Vienna University of Technology to discuss some of the key takings from his research co-authored with Christopher Loewald, and Konstantin Makrelov called ‘Addressing low labour utilization in South Africa’. In this podcast we discuss why South Africa’s inactivity rate is an international outlier even when compared to other emerging markets and what we can earn from past policy successes and failures in our labour market. Considering that the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted pre-existing weaknesses in the economy, […]

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