ERSA-SALDRU December Workshop 2025: Frontiers in applied economics for developing countries
Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) are pleased to announce a two-day workshop. It will be hosted 8 & 9 December 2025, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Youth unemployment and the search for meaningful pathways to employment
In this article Ariane De Lannoy reflects on what the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Data tells us about young people who remain disconnected from education and employment and how these findings relate to the lived realitie of young people.
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SALDRU participation at the AIDSImpact conference in Casablanca
SALDRU had a very strong presence at the AIDSImpact Conference, which was held in Casablanca from the 26th to the 28th of May, 2025. Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown presented five oral presentations and chaired a session.
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SALDRU STATA Courses July 2025
SALDRU invites applications to the below two one-week Stata training courses to be held at the University of Cape Town in July 2025. Applications close on 23 June 2025.
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Challenging inequalities through policy relevant academic research.
Gender and the time-squeeze: childcare versus work-hours in South Africa during lockdown
In this article, Amy Thornton describes how she and Jacqueline Mosomi showed that the shock in demand for at-home childcare triggered by the Covid-19 lockdowns affected women’s paid work hours more negatively than men’s.
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SALDRU launches interactive online platform The Community Explorer
Effective community-level development requires granular insights into well-being disparities. The Community Explorer is an interactive online platform designed to map, analyse, and visualise community-level well-being data in South Africa
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Tracking impact: The Basic Package of Support launches its first tracer study
The Basic Package of Support (BPS), designed as an integrated, youth-responsive intervention to tackle the various barriers faced by young people, has just launched its first tracer study.
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Siyaphambili interactive website
An interactive website to track and monitor qualification attainment and related information in South Africa.
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OpenSALDRU
The SALDRU repository contains publications from research conducted within the research unit. Select a collection to browse its contents.
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