Current News

A new report by the United Nations Population Fund and the Development Policy Research Unit titled “Lesotho’s Demographic Dividend in the Context of Health and Other Development Challenges”, has just been published.

Recently published research paper “Watts happening to work? The labour market effects of loadshedding”, authored by Tim Köhler and Prof. Haroon Bhorat, has sparked significant media interest...

This paper merges labour force survey microdata with high-frequency electricity supply and demand data to provide the first estimates of the relationships between outages and labour market outcomes in South Africa.

Congratulations to the winners of the Francis Wilson Memorial Prize for Data-Driven Research!

How to make employment and labour market policy central in our thinking on Social Protection, Industrialisation, and Climate Change in South Africa: A conversation with 3 international experts

This report provides a robust quantitative estimate of direct and indirect jobs associated with the coal sector in SA, and explores the labour market profile and characteristics of the individuals and households linked to the coal sector.

This workshop discussing 'Jobs, Livelihoods & Social Protection in the Coal Industry', is convened by the DPRU and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development.

The DPRU welcomes a visiting PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT, Rafael de la Vega, for the next few months.

We conduct a micro-econometric analysis of the evolution of the level and nature of wage inequality and its drivers during the first two years of the pandemic in South Africa.

"Fighting poverty...", published in 2001, is now open access, and features as one of the showcased books in the relaunch of UCT Press on 19 October 2023.

If you have experience in financial administration and reporting, the DPRU invites you to apply for this key position within its administrative team

DPRU working papers: case studies for the UNTANGLED interdisciplinary research project