Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

Economic Research Southern Africa

May 21 2021 | 00:37:31

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Show Notes

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what was considered one of the most draconian national lockdowns, and as expected, we have noticed a decline in economic growth accompanied by a negative shock to our labour market leaving 2,2 million people unemployed in the second quarter of 2020. In this podcast, we are joined by Timothy Köhler from the Development and Policy Unit at the University of Cape Town’s School of Economics, who developed a novel quasi-experimental econometric technique to estimate the causal employment effects on South Africa’s national lockdown. We treat this word […]

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