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Youth Explorer expanded into tool for services mapping and referrals

31st May 202130th Jan 2022Kim Ingle

The development of the Youth Explorer by SALDRU researchers in collaboration with OpenUp and government partners began four years ago. When the portal

UCT lecture by Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

31st May 202130th Mar 2022Kim Ingle

Co-founder of J-PAL (whose Africa office is based in SALDRU) and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Abhijit Banerjee, spoke at UCT's virtual Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture.

South African inequalities highlighted at international conference

28th Apr 202128th Apr 2021Kim Ingle

Findings from South Africa’s first multidimensional inequality diagnostics report recently featured prominently at a high-level conference hosted by the European Union (EU) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

On the 2021 Budget

31st Mar 202130th Jun 2021Kim Ingle Andrew Donaldson

The 2021 South African National Budget confirms National Treasury’s firm resolve to reverse South Africa’s rising debt burden while adjusting to a lower growth and inflation outlook. The outcome is a brutal constraint on spending for the period ahead.

Understanding employment dynamics in South Africa using the NIDS-CRAM survey

25th Feb 202128th Jul 2021Kim Ingle

February 17th 2021 marked the official release of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) Wave 3 data. In this article Assoc. Prof. Reza Daniels focuses on what the NIDS-CRAM data can tell us about measuring employment in South Africa.

Gearing up for piloting a support programme for vulnerable young people in South Africa

28th Jan 202128th Jan 2021Kim Ingle

This article shares some of the BPS’s milestones during 2020 and provides a brief recap of the reasons underlying the development of the BPS, and why this has become especially pertinent in the context of COVID-19.

The Platform Economy: Is a crowdworker an employee? Lessons from Germany

13th Dec 202015th Dec 2020Kim Ingle Dr Ruediger Helm, lawyer of the claimant in this case

Roamler is one of a profusion of new platform companies currently disrupting the labour market by utilizing innovative definitions to describe the people it deploys to do its work. A case was brought against Roamler in Germany by a so-called member of the crowd (of Roamler's crowdsourcing platform) who was legally represented in the German Federal Labour Court by SALDRU affiliate, Dr Ruediger Helm.

Youth Explorer team presents to the ESIEID Ministerial Cluster

13th Dec 202025th Jun 2021Kim Ingle

In early December 2020, Ariane de Lannoy presented to the Ministerial Cluster for the Economic Sectors, Investment, Employment and Infrastructure Development, on behalf of the Youth Explorer team and as part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.

Benchmarking early grade reading literacy skills in Nguni languages

26th Nov 202030th Sep 2021Kim Ingle

A multi-disciplinary team from SALDRU at UCT, RESEP at Stellenbosch University and NORC at the University of Chicago have collaborated to establish benchmarks for foundational reading skills in three Nguni languages.

The value of South Africa for understanding durable inequalities

26th Nov 202030th Mar 2022Kim Ingle

The lessons and experiences from South Africa have a lot to contribute to the conceptualisation and implementation of policies to reduce inequality worldwide, as well as to the theories that can help us to understand how inequalities come about.