Neil Rankin
Contact details
Email: neilrankin[at]sun.ac.za
Phone: +27(0)21 808-2678
Room 404
Schumann building
Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602
Twitter: NeilRankinZA
Research
"Accessing the First Job in a Slack Labour Market: Job Matching in South Africa," with Gareth A. Roberts and Volker Schöer, Journal of International Development, vol. 26(1), pages 1-22, January 2014.
“Wage subsidies and youth employment in South Africa: Evidence from a randomised control trial,” with James Levinsohn, Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer, Stellenbosch Economic Working Paper, 02/14, January 2014
"Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices in South Africa: Evidence from Micro-Data," with Janine Aron, Kenneth Creamer and John Muellbauer, Discussion paper 9735, Centre for Economic Policy Research, November 2013.
“Education and Employment in Zambia: Evidence from a Scoping Exercise,” with Herryman Moono, International Growth Centre Working Paper, August 2013
"Is Africa Integrating? Evidence from Product Markets," with Lawrence Edwards, Working Paper 292, Economic Research Southern Africa, June 2012
Recent other research
“The financial crisis and its enduring legacy for youth employment,” with Gareth Roberts, Volker Schöer and Debra Shepherd, in Jan Hofmeyr (ed) The Youth Dividend. Unlocking the potential of young South Africans, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2012
“Networks and the employment of African youth: Challenges to matching firms with workers,” with Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer, in Jan Hofmeyr (ed) Vision or vacuum? Governing the South African economy, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2011
Data
South African Labour Market Entry Survey (LMES)
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Upcoming Seminars
Monday 21 July 202512:00-13:00
Izak Odendaal: Old Mutual Wealth Chief Investment Strategist
Topic: "Diverging fiscal policies and what it means for markets"
12:00-13:00
Dr Neil Rankin: Ceo Of Predictive Insights & Stellenbosch University
Topic: "TBC"
12:00-13:00
Prof Willem Boshoff: Stellenbosch University
Topic: "Two competing approaches in South African competition policy: merger control and anti-cartel enforcement over the past 30 years"
BER Weekly
27 Jun 2025 Another setback for the GNU, but oil markets breathe a little easierThis week was marked by heightened tensions both domestically and internationally. At home, friction intensified between the two largest parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU), the ANC and the DA, following the firing of one of the DA's deputy ministers. Internationally, the US conducted airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities using...
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Upcoming Seminars
Monday 21 July 202512:00-13:00
Izak Odendaal: Old Mutual Wealth Chief Investment Strategist
Topic: "Diverging fiscal policies and what it means for markets"
12:00-13:00
Dr Neil Rankin: Ceo Of Predictive Insights & Stellenbosch University
Topic: "TBC"
12:00-13:00
Prof Willem Boshoff: Stellenbosch University
Topic: "Two competing approaches in South African competition policy: merger control and anti-cartel enforcement over the past 30 years"
BER Weekly
27 Jun 2025 Another setback for the GNU, but oil markets breathe a little easierThis week was marked by heightened tensions both domestically and internationally. At home, friction intensified between the two largest parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU), the ANC and the DA, following the firing of one of the DA's deputy ministers. Internationally, the US conducted airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities using...
Read the full issue