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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you see a bicycle on the far-right lane, coming up soon to an intersection with traffic lights, please don't overtake the bicycle on its left-hand side and then stop. The natural path for a bicycle when turning right is to filter to the left of the stationary cars that are also turning right.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introducing charts.aidanhorn.co.za ! A dashboard of automatically-updating charts across a range of data domains, including crypto, the climate, energy generation, house prices, and commodity prices. It is free, and kept up-to-date every day.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🏘️ Cape Town vs. Joburg: The property divide is widening. I recently created the graph for this article detailing South Africa's metro housing markets, and the data provides some serious food for thought on our shifting housing prices. 🇿🇦 dailyinvestor.com/property/133...

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Owning a house in Cape Town versus Joburg – the winner is clear

There is no shortage of comparisons between Cape Town and Johannesburg, with each city having its own strengths. However, when it comes to property prices, there is a clear winner.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Click here for authoritative, up-to-date, accurate statistics on incomes in education: codera.co.za/employment-a... This is derived from the complete coverage of the entire formal-sector population, in the SARS administrative tax data.

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Employment and earnings in education in SA - Codera Analytics

Employment and earnings in education in SA Blog post Today's post by Aidan Horn summarises developments in education employment and earnings by age and location in South Africa.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I think the asset in my life that's given the highest return is my bicycle, which I still use to commute about every two days. We purchased it new about 24 years ago. The return comes in the form of: • a transport solution (giving me independence) • very low maintenance costs • high physical health

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In Dec 2025, Codera Analytics released the 2025Q3 vintage of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. We had a delay of one month with engineering this vintage because the source Excel file was revised, reflecting StatsSA's planned changes to the questionnaire, according to the ICSE-18 standard. 1/2

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I've co-authored two upcoming journal articles, one on night light intensity in South Africa. www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026... codera.co.za/illuminating...

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

What are the current dam levels like across the provinces in South Africa? econdata.co.za/provincial-d... I will update this every Monday evening.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I think the purpose of life is to play the best set of roles, out of those available to you.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My new year's resolution is to read more books (at least 100 pages per month).

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

An experienced programmer knows that commits aren't everything. Some commits aim to transfer code in development from a local computer to a remote computer. Some commits are entirely vibe coded in an unfamiliar language and not checked. Some commits hurriedly fix a typo. 1/3

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

AI reduces aggregate demand for jobs that it provides assistance with (a displacement effect). AI makes workers more productive. So, individuals aren't affected—it's the marginal decisions in the hiring process that's affected.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

There has been some confusion in the media about how unemployment is measured and how StatsSA is amending the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS). In this Codera Analytics blog post, I discuss this, and the measurement of the informal economy in the QLFS. codera.co.za/absorption-r...

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Absorption rate and unemployment rates by province in SA - Codera Analytics

Absorption rate and unemployment rates by province in SA Blog post There has been a lot of debate about the measurement of the informal economy in South Africa.

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

An important goal to strive for is to not have worries.

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SALDRU @saldru.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

[New SALDRU Working Paper]: Horn, A.J. (@aidanhorn.bsky.social), Leibbrandt, M., Donaldson, A. (2025). Occupational Polarization in South Africa: Evidence from the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series. (SALDRU WP 312) opensaldru.uct.ac.za/handle/11090...

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Cape Town property prices have grown at an annualized rate of 1.4% between January 2010 and November 2024, after discounting headline inflation (6.52% before discounting inflation). econdata.co.za/user-guide/s...

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Horn, A.J., Leibbrandt, M. & Donaldson, A. 2025. Occupational Polarization in South Africa: Evidence from the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series. (SALDRU working paper 312). Available: www.opensaldru.uct.ac.za/handle/11090...

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Aidan Horn @aidanhorn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Gaps in the South African Inflation Targeting Debate March 2025. MPRA Paper No. 124010. mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/124010/ To lower South Africa's inflation target without economic harm, the paper argues for supportive fiscal policy... (1/2)

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Gaps in the South African Inflation Targeting Debate Munich Personal RePEc Archive

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