Approaches to Employment Creation in South Africa
Author: Jill Nattrass
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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Author: Jill Nattrass
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Black
Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1775820076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa’s high rate of unemployment (26.4%) makes it a complete outlier compared with other middle-income countries. Indeed, the unemployment rate rises to 36% if discouraged workers are taken into account. It underpins extreme poverty and inequality and is a major contributor to social dislocation. If it were not for increased social payments, poverty would have continued to increase since the advent of democracy in 1994. Unemployment also represents a huge cost to growth. This book focuses on the growth path of the economy. The starting point is that while more rapid economic expansion is an important objective, at any given level of growth, the economy as a whole needs to become more labour-absorbing. The central question posed is how to bring about changes in the economic structure and pattern of development, which would lead to the attainment of this objective. The authors argue that employment needs to be much more centrally positioned within the economic and social policy arena. They emphasise innovative approaches within a broader focus on the growth path, and employment-intensive growth. And they posit that the negative impact of previous ‘distortions’ requires much more than a levelling of the playing field via market-based reforms. Apart from presenting an alternative growth path which could start to shift the economy in new directions, the book tackles themes which have received only limited attention, such as wage subsidies, youth unemployment and employment growth in rural areas.
Author: South Africa
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick C. v. N. Fourie
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780796925343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Although South Africa's informal sector is small compared to other developing countries, it nevertheless provides livelihoods, employment and income for millions of workers and business owners. Almost half of informal-sector workers work in firms with employees. The annual entry of new enterprises is quite high, as is the number of informal enterprises that grow their employment. There is no shortage of entrepreneurship and desire to grow. However, obstacles and constraints cause hardship and failure, pointing to the need for well-designed policies to enable and support the sector, rather than suppress it. The same goes for formalisation. Recognising the informal sector as an integral part of the economy, rather than ignoring it, is a crucial first step towards instituting a 'smart' policy approach. The South African Informal Sector is strongly evidence- and data-driven, with substantial quantitative contributions combined with qualitative findings--suitable for an era of increased pressure for evidence-based policy-making--and utilises several disciplinary perspectives."--
Author: Nir Klein
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1475588380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job-shedding observed during the recent financial crisis. The paper finds that the rapid growth of the real wage, which outpaced the labor productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while there is a co-integrating link between the real wage and labor productivity, the deviations from equilibrium are persistent and thus contribute to a weak link between real wage growth and labor productivity growth in the short term. This finding is also supported by a cross-country analysis, which shows that in South Africa the link between the real wage and labor productivity is substantially weaker than in other emerging markets, even after controlling for labor market tightness indicators.
Author: Jill Nattrass
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 40
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kate Philip
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1847011764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies.