How to Build a Future for SA’s Youth 27th Sep 201829th Jul 2020Fazila Farouk By Lauren Graham, Leila Patel, Ariane de Lannoy & Murray Leibbrandt (Mail & Guardian) The success of any youth employment project depends on well co-ordinated interventions between policymakers, employers, educators and trainers, and young people themselves, Saldrupians and University of Johannesburg colleagues write in the Mail & Guardian. In the Media
Employment and Poverty 27th Sep 201827th Sep 2018Fazila Farouk Rocco Zizzamia, a SALDRU Research Officer, presented his paper entitled, "Is employment a panacea for poverty in South Africa? A mixed-methods investigation" at the Human Development and Capability Association Conference, in Buenos Aires in early September. The conference theme was "Human development and social inclusion in an urbanising world". Spotlight
Reflections on the Work of the Future 27th Sep 201813th Dec 2020Fazila Farouk By Ruediger Helm SALDRU research affiliate, Dr. Ruediger Helm, attended the LABOR.A 2018 - Platform Future of Work - Conference in Berlin on 13 September, hosted by the Hans Böckler Foundation. Helm compiled a comprehensive report of sessions he attended to share with a global audience. Spotlight
De Lannoy Appointed to Supervisory Board of ANTHUSIA 27th Sep 20181st Dec 2022Fazila Farouk Chief Researcher at SALDRU, A/Prof. Ariane De Lannoy, has been appointed to the supervisory board of ANTHUSIA. ANTHUSIA is a multi-disciplinary research project in the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa conducted by a consortium of four universities in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Norway. SALDRU News
SALDRU at the UNU-WIDER Conference in Helsinki 26th Sep 201826th Sep 2018Fazila Farouk SALDRU’s director, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, acting director, Prof. Vimal Ranchhod and SALDRU research associate, Prof. Lawrence Edwards, attended the UNU-WIDER conference titled, Think SALDRU News
Rocco Zizzamia wins 2018 MPhil prize 31st Aug 201831st Aug 2018Fazila Farouk SALDRU researcher, Rocco Zizzamia, of St Anne’s College at Oxford University won the Papiya Ghosh Thesis Prize. Rocco's thesis explores the effects that volatility in the South African labour market has on individual well-being, specifically focusing on those (paradoxical) cases in which disadvantaged workers turn down or quit wage jobs. Spotlight
NIDS Hosts 5-day Panel Data Course 31st Aug 2018Fazila Farouk The National Income Dynamics Study implemented by SALDRU on behalf of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, hosted a 5-day Panel Data Course at UCT’s School of Economics. The course provided an introduction to analysing the NIDS Wave 1-4 data using Stata. Spotlight
New study on socio-economic effects and costs of incomplete secondary education 30th Aug 201830th Sep 2021Fazila Farouk The DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, hosted at Wits University, awarded a seed grant to SALDRU to collaborate on a study into the longer-term socio-economic effects and costs of incomplete secondary education. SALDRU News
Zimbabwe Manufacturing Firm Survey 2015-2016 Data Released 30th Aug 201831st Aug 2018Fazila Farouk This survey, undertaken by Prof. Lawrence Edwards under the project, Matched Employee-Employer Panel-Data for Labour Market Analysis in Zimbabwe, is a SALDRU project funded by IZA/DFID. The data for this survey was recently released via the DataFirst Open Data Portal. Spotlight
NIDS 2018 Data Release: Introducing Wave 5 and updated versions of Waves 1-4 30th Aug 201830th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk At the end of August, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), implemented by SALDRU on behalf of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, will be releasing the fifth wave of NIDS data which was collected in 2017, together with updated versions of the NIDS Waves 1 to Wave 4 data. Spotlight
