Today’s post by Jacques Quass De Vos summarises estimates from his upcoming policy brief investigating the labour market impacts of incumbent mayoral tenure in Cape Town, showing that a stable, single-party mayoral tenure in Cape Town may have raised the labour force absorption rate by between 2.3 and 5.5 percentage points over the period 2022–Q3 to 2026–Q1. Read our latest Policy Paper for more.
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Note that with a single treated metro, standard inference is limited. Results are therefore suggestive and not definitive.
