Reducing record-high unemployment

<p>Statistics South Africa’s latest labour force survey showed that the official unemployment rate rose to a record-high of 32.6% in the first quarter of 2021. That’s about 2.5 percentage points higher than during the first quarter of 2020. In this podcast, Lisette IJssel de Schepper from the Bureau for Economic Research unpacks the data and also talks about how unemployment could be reduced.</p>