Cognit Syscode Academy

institutions

Labour Market Institutions and Bargaining Realities

5 weeks · 30 hours · Hybrid with role-play · Southern Africa focus

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We study unions, minimum wages, and active labor programs as parts of a system. Simulations explore bargaining under inflation volatility and sectoral heterogeneity. You will practice translating institutional detail for macro audiences.

ZAR 780 · informational price · see Returns & Refunds

What is included

  • Institutional comparison worksheets across sectors
  • Negotiation simulation with asymmetric information
  • Mentor clinic on writing for treasury and labor audiences simultaneously
  • Optional module on gig work classification debates
  • Peer review on clarity and fairness of assumptions
  • Office hours on data sources for earnings distributions
  • Reading group on gendered labor market institutions

Outcomes

  1. Explain wage-setting mechanisms without collapsing sectors
  2. Facilitate a bargaining prep memo with explicit trade-offs
  3. Identify when productivity claims lack empirical grounding
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Lead mentor

Fatima Duarte

Labor institutions researcher with collective bargaining field experience.

Participant notes

Labour Market Institutions clarified where our wage claims needed sector-specific evidence.
Themba · Union researcher · 5/5

Questions

No, but you should be open to role-playing multiple sides.

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