As we move through the various stages of the pandemic, important welfare questions arise relating to employment changes in SA.

By analysing new labour market data from the Nids-Cram survey, we can investigate who was most affected by the pandemic and lockdown. And by comparing results from wave 1 and wave 2 of the survey — which coincided with level 5 of the lockdown in April and level 3 in June — we can investigate the extent to which employment losses were temporary...

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