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Banda, Handson, Hlanganipai Ngirande, and Fortune Hogwe. "The impact of economic growth on unemployment in South Africa: 1994-2012." Investment Management and Financial Innovations 13, no. 2 (July 4, 2016): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.13(2-1).2016.11.

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One of the most pressing problems facing the South African economy is unemployment, which has been erratic over the past few years. This paper analyzed the impact of economic growth on unemployment, using quarterly South African time series data from 1994-2012. The results of Johansen cointegration reflected that a long run equilibrium or relationship exists among the variables. In ascertaining the effects of macroeconomic variables thus REER, LP, GDP and BUG on unemployment in South Africa, the study utilized vector error correction model (VECM). The results of VECM indicated that GDP, BUG and REER have positive long run impact on unemployment whilst LP negatively impact unemployment. The study resulted in the following policy recommendation: South African government should redirect its spending towards activities that directly and indirectly promote creation of employment and decent jobs, a conducive environment and flexible labor market policies or legislations without impediments to employment creation should be created, and lastly government should prioritize industries that promote labor intensive. All this will help in absorbing large pools of the unemployed population thereby reducing unemployment in South Africa
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Smith, Jennifer L. "Deproletarianization in the Peri-Urban Interface: Transforming Labor Relations in Polokwane, South Africa." Human Geography 7, no. 3 (November 2014): 44–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861400700304.

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High unemployment rates and the search for job opportunities are defining characteristics of the modern day South African economy. As apartheid era labor and land controls continue to break down, many households find themselves searching for work in an economy characterized by surplus labor. Examining high unemployment rates through the theoretical lens of deproletarianization provides an explanation of persistent unemployment and poverty more complex and complete than others. Research conducted in Polokwane, South Africa demonstrates increasing peri-urbanization as a physical manifestation of these changing labor relations. 1In an era dominated by global capitalism, theoretical engagements help explain household poverty, the failure of South Africa's economy to absorb excess labor, and how persistent unemployment contributes to a recon-figuration of space in South Africa's urban and peri-urban areas. The research team used a combination of qualitative semi-structured interviews and quantitative surveys to gain insight into household livelihoods and individual experiences. The deproletarianization argument applied here asserts that labor has become unfree in South Africa and represents a new form of labor discipline. Through the deproletarianization thesis, the labor market can be better understood to inform future unemployment and poverty research in South Africa.
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Maduku, Harris, and Irrshad Kaseeram. "Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy and Unemployment in South Africa." Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 10, no. 4(J) (September 14, 2018): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i4(j).2410.

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We analyze the impact of inflation, growth and exchange rate on unemployment in South Africa using annual data spanning 1980- 2017. Using the ARDL methodology we find that there is a negative longrun relationship between inflation and unemployment in South Africa and inflation is significant in explaining unemployment. Other variables of interest, economic growth and exchange rate are also significant in explaining unemployment. We use the findings of our study to propose that the South African Reserve Bank(SARB) should consider revising its objectives so that they can consider getting involved in targeting unemployment so that they help nurse the economy from the wounds of high inequality and poverty.
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Banda, Handson, and Ireen Choga. "The impact of economic growth on unemployment in South Africa: 1994 – 2012." Corporate Ownership and Control 12, no. 4 (2015): 699–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv12i4c7p1.

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One of the most pressing problems facing the South African economy is unemployment, which has been erratic over the past few years. This study examined the impact of economic growth on unemployment, using quarterly time series data for South Africa for the period 1994 to 2012.Johansen Co-integration reflected that there is stable and one significant long run relationship between unemployment and the explanatory variables that is economic growth (GDP), budget deficit (BUG), real effective exchange rate (REER) and labour productivity (LP). The study utilized Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to determine the effects of macroeconomic variables thus REER, LP, GDP and BUG on unemployment in South Africa. The results of VECM indicated that LP has a negative long run impact on unemployment whilst GDP, BUG and REER have positive impact. The study resulted in the following policy recommendation: South African government should re-direct its spending towards activities that directly and indirectly promote creation of employment and decent jobs; a conducive environment and flexible labour market policies or legislations without impediments to employment creation should be created; and lastly government should prioritise industries that promote labour intensive. All this will help in absorbing large pools of the unemployed population thereby reducing unemployment in South Africa.
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Schoeman, Christie, and Phillip Blaauw. "Unemployment in South Africa 1970 – 2002: The development of a configuration concern for future employment." Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences 3, no. 1 (April 30, 2009): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jef.v3i1.348.

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Unemployment in South Africa has reached crisis proportions and does not seem to be decreasing in concurrence with the more propitious economic reality. Indeed, the unemployment process seems to be isolated from economic reality and has developed a life of its own. This paper investigates what initiates and underlies the development of this phenomenon. The Phillips model on endogenously determined long-run equilibrium unemployment is applied, using hysteresis models and autoregressive modelling, to determine the nature of the high and sustained levels of South African unemployment. We find evidence of unemployment in South Africa being a historical inheritance preserved by uncertainty and sunken costs in the labour market.
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Simkins, Charles. "Employment and unemployment in South Africa." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 22, no. 2 (May 2004): 253–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/cjca0258900042000230041.

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Yu, Derek. "Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited." Development Southern Africa 30, no. 4-05 (December 2013): 545–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835x.2013.830964.

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Evelyn Chiloane-Tsoka, Germinah. "Factors influencing the Perceptions of youth entrepreneurship development in South Africa." Problems and Perspectives in Management 14, no. 3 (September 27, 2016): 556–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.14(3-2).2016.12.

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Youth unemployment is one of the central concerns affecting global economics in the world today. The recent World Economic Forum held at Davos prioritized the discussions on issues confronting youth unemployment. The International Labor Office (ILO, 2013) projected a global youth unemployment rate of 12.7% by 2017. According to the ILO, (2013), 202 million people are unemployed globally and 40% are under the age of 24. South Africa fares even worse. Statistics SA (2012) indicates that 71% of the unemployed are aged 25-34 and the unemployment rate among youth is 36%. About 3.3 million youth aged 15-34 are not employed or studying (Financial Mail, 7th February 2013). With this in mind, the paper intends to look at the perceptions affecting youth entrepreneurship development in South Africa and whether entrepreneurial education and training fosters the development of entrepreneurial orientation in the South African youth. A five point Likert Scale was used, 1 = Strongly disagree 3 = Neutral and 5 = Strongly agree. Furthermore, a quantitative research method was used and 132 grade eleven learners were purposefully selected randomly in Crawford high school in Gauteng. Findings indicate that entrepreneurship education and training can direct students towards certain career choices; secondly, planned behavior can be predicted; and thirdly, practically is able to increase the propensity of students to start a business. Keywords: SA, learners, entrepreneurship culture, orientation, education, youth unemployment. JEL Classification: L26, J24
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Albert Dagume, Mbulaheni, and Agyapong Gyekye. "Determinants of youth unemployment in South Africa: evidence from the Vhembe district of Limpopo province." Environmental Economics 7, no. 4 (December 9, 2016): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.07(4).2016.06.

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The persistent high unemployment rate confronting South Africa, in particular among the youth, continues to be a cause of concern for all stakeholders including academic researchers dealing with labor market issues. As a contribution to efforts at finding solution to the unemployment challenge, the study sought to investigate the nature and causes of rural unemployment amongst the youth using data on a sample of 580 randomly and systematically selected youth from the four local municipalities in the Vhembe district of Limpopo province, South Africa. Binary logistic regression model was estimated to determine the socio-demographic, as well as economic factors that influence youth unemployment. Results of the binary logistic regression model showed that having received (skills) training and work experience were associated with reduced odds of being unemployed. This study highlights the importance of skills training opportunities, as well as apprenticeship in mitigating the unemployment challenge among the youth. The provision of necessary training infrastructure and funding for skills training, as well as work integrated learning and extended career specific internship programs to help to equip South African youth with work experience are major recommendations from this study. Keywords: unemployment, youth, binary logistic regression, Vhembe district, South Africa. JEL Classification: J64
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Nattrass, Nicoli. "Meeting the Challenge of Unemployment?" ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 652, no. 1 (January 30, 2014): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716213511189.

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South Africa has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world. Job creation is a national priority, yet labor-intensive options are derided by the trade union movement as an unacceptable throwback to the “cheap labor” policies of apartheid, and effectively ruled out by the government in its recent National Development Plan (NDP). Instead, minimum-wage setting in South Africa continues to contribute to job destruction (as evidenced most recently in the clothing industry). Policy-makers hope that support for high-productivity firms and rapid economic growth will make up for job losses and solve the unemployment problem. Unfortunately, South Africa’s economic performance has been comparatively disappointing and constrained by negative investor sentiment, especially with regard to the labor market. The NDP has called for a social accord between labor and capital. But the prospects are not promising, and unemployment is likely to remain a significant feature of the South African economic landscape.
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Mathebula, Inocent Nelson. "Determinants of unemployment and earnings in South Africa." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1958.

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South Africa is one of the countries with chronic high unemployment rate. The unemployment rate has consistently been above 24% for a considerable period of time. It is important for policy and decision makers to know the type of persons who are unemployed, and underemployed in order to come up with the right intervention. The purpose of this study was to find and describe the determinants of unemployment, underemployment, and earnings in South Africa. In order to realize the objectives of the study, secondary data from 2012 Quarterly Labour Force Survey was used. Statistics South Africa collects labour market related information from persons between the age of 15 and 64. The data have information on status of unemployment, underemployment and earnings and other related to variables. Logistic regression was applied on the data and it was found that age, gender, population group, marital status, level of education, and province were significant determinants of unemployment in South Africa. Gender, population group, sector, marital status and contract duration were found to be significantly associated with time-related underemployment. Generalised linear model was applied on the data and it was found that gender, population group, marital status, level of education contract duration, geographical location, and sector were the determinants of earnings.
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Wakefield, Hayley Innez. "Investigating chronic unemployment in South Africa, 2008-2015." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7227.

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The South African economy is faced with a crisis of persistently high and rising unemployment rates. Although this is a cause for serious concern, the statistic captures a segment of the working-age population enduring recurrent spells of unemployment – a vulnerable group for consideration that these figures fail to uncover. The dilemma could be linked to the influx of previously disadvantaged groups (i.e. Africans and females) into the labour market since the dawn of democracy. Thus, the newly appointed South African government inherits an economy that had systematically disadvantaged most of the population, leading to an oversupply of labour, where highly-skilled labour appears to be more appealing in comparison to the relatively low-skilled labour offered by these persons. Historically suppressed groups thus disproportionately bear the brunt of this unemployment, where some may have involuntarily remained rooted in unemployment for longer periods of time than those considered unemployed on a temporal basis. The importance of exploring and understanding the roles of some underlying forces is extremely crucial to wrestle this pressing issue in a South African context, when examining labour market dynamics. This study therefore explores the nature and extent of chronic unemployment by examining the data of the first four available waves (2008, 2010/2011, 2012 and 2014/2015) of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). The empirical findings reveal that those significantly more susceptible to chronic unemployment are: African individuals with either incomplete secondary education or at most a Matric qualification in tandem with an additional certificate/diploma, residing in traditional areas in less wealthy provinces (i.e. Free State and Mpumalanga). Furthermore, the results demonstrate that these chronically unemployed individuals are more likely to form part of the youth (25-44 years), be non-poor, with their household composition consisting of one to five household members where the minority enjoy wage employment whereas the majority endure spells of unemployment. Ultimately, they devote themselves to informal employment and occupations requiring semi-skilled and relatively unskilled labour in the community, social and personal services industry and on average earn R 3 342 per month in 2016 December prices.
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Symes, Caylynne Elizabeth. "Problematizing unemployment : the competing representations of unemployment and the implications thereof." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79921.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Unemployment has been recognized as one of the most important social problems worldwide as most countries suffer from some unemployment. South Africa’s high unemployment rate has led to an abundance of research on the topic. A vast majority of the research available on unemployment in South Africa is positivist in nature. This study instead uses an interpretivist approach to analyse the problem of unemployment in South Africa. The study uses Carol Bacchi’s approach to provide a different way of analysing the problem of unemployment in South Africa. Bacchi’s approach allows the analyst to focus on problem representations and how these representations shape what is discussed and what is not discussed about the topic. This study demonstrates the application of Bacchi’s approach and focuses on the problem representations of the significant actors involved with unemployment, namely the South African government, business, COSATU and the SACP. The study focuses on the effects of the problem representations of unemployment, in particular the discursive and political effects. This study argues that Bacchi’s approach is a useful tool for the analysis of unemployment. It is also argued in this study that the approach provides insights into the problem of unemployment by highlighting what is not discussed in the problem representations of the significant actors. By sensitizing individuals to what is excluded in the problem representations, it is argued that solutions which negate the negative effects of such representations can be found. Bacchi’s approach highlighted a number of problem representations of unemployment. The study found that some problem representations were shared by one or more actors and that divergence exist between the representations of other actors. The shared and divergent representations focused on the tripartite alliance due to the significance of the alliance in South African politics. The shared and divergence representations were demonstrated to either help to towards improving the relationships between actors or, in the case of divergence, increase the tensions in the actor’s relationship with one another. The study also found that the non-government actors’ problem representations of unemployment direct attention to government’s responsibility for dealing with unemployment while minimising their role and contribution to unemployment. The study also demonstrated that the interests of different actors can be identified in the dominant problem representations.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Werkloosheid is ‘n belangrike probleem wat meeste lande raak. Baie navorsing is al in Suid-Afrika gedoen weens sy besonderse hoë werkloosheidyfer. Die meerderheid hiervan is positivisties in benadering. Hierdie navorsing gebruik egter ‘n interpretiewe benadering. Carrol Bacchi se benadering word gebruik as ‘n alternatiewe raamwerk om Suid-Afrika se werkloosheidsprobleem te analiseer. Bacchi se benadering laat die navorser toe om te fokus op hoe die probleem beskou word en hoe hierdie beskouing die keuse van wat ingesluit is en wat nie is nie, beïnvloed. Hierdie navorsing fokus op die sleutelfigure in die werkloosheidsprobleem, naamlik die Suid-Afrikaanse regering, die SACP en COSATU. Die studie benadruk die diskursiewe en politiese effek van die probleembeskouing van werkloosheid. Die studie argumenteer dat Bacchi se benadering waardevolle insigte kan lewer, spesifiek deur onbespreekte kwessies rakende die sleutelfigure uit te lig. Dit word aangevoer dat deur waardering te kweek vir hierdie kwessies, oplossings vir hierdie probleembeskouings gevind kan word. Bacchi se benadering het ‘n paar probleembeskouings uitgelig. Die studie het gevind dat daar ooreenstemming is by sommige figure, terwyl ander s’n uiteenlopend is. Hierdie sienings het gelei tot samegorigheid in die eersgenoemde geval, maar tot verhoogde vlakke van wantroue en spanning in die laasgenoemde geval. Die fokus van hierdie sienings is die drieparty-alliansie, weens sy belangrikheid in SA-politiek. Die studie vind ook dat nieregeringsorganisasies se probleembeskouings die rol van die regering benadruk en hul eie verantwoordelikheid onderspeel.
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Murwirapachena, Genius. "Fiscal policy and unemployment in South Africa 1980 to 2010." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/544.

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Unemployment is one of the greatest and most complex challenges facing South Africa. Just like most developing countries, South Africa has been using the fiscal policy framework as a tool to alleviate the high rates of unemployment. This study examined the impact of fiscal policy on unemployment in South Africa. The study used annual time series data for the period 1980 to 2010. A vector error correction model was used to determine the effects of fiscal policy aggregates on unemployment in South Africa. The fiscal policy aggregates considered in this study were government investment expenditure, government consumption expenditure and tax. Results from this study revealed that government consumption expenditure and tax have a positive impact on unemployment while government investment expenditure negatively affects unemployment in South Africa. Policy recommendations were made using these results.
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Tuipende, Deoden. "Unemployment and labour market (in)flexibility in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52597.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: When South Africa re-entered the global arena, her immediate priority was to search for and affirm her position in the global economy. In this process, South Africa has witnessed massive job losses that compounded the already existing problem of unemployment. South Africa is considered to be one of the countries with the highest levels of unemployment - a fact that has raised a great deal of concern among Government, Business and Labour. This study project examines the functioning of South Africa's labour market with the intention of establishing whether or not it is linked to the problem of unemployment. The study draws labour-flexibility comparisons between the world's most flexible and deregulated labour market (USA) and Europe; and, relatively, tries to find South Africa's position. The study has revealed that there is a relationship between flexibility and employment - countries with flexible labour markets, ceteris paribus, also have high levels of ~- employment and vice versa. The study has also revealed that a culmination of high levels of illiteracy, trade union activities and the new labour laws has resulted into labour market rigidities which are partly responsible for the high rate of unemployment in South Africa. The study has also revealed that any effort by South Africa to adopt the US-style of labour market flexibility should be accompanied by some other policy checks to ensure maximum benefits. This is based on the finding that flexibility per se could have devastating effects for the economy. It is not only the labour market rigidities that are responsible for the current high rate of unemployment in South Africa. Factors like persistent and systematic decline in labour absorption capacity vis-a '-vis persistent and systematic increase in labour supply, decline in economic growth and globalisation claim a lion's share.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met Suid-Afrika se hertoetrede tot die internasionale arena was sy eerste prioriteit om sy plek in die wêreldekonomie te vind en te bevestig. Algaande het Suid-Afrika 'n grootskaalse verlies aan werkgeleenthede ervaar, wat die reeds bestaande probleem van werkloosheid vererger het. Vandag word Suid-Afrika beskou as een van die lande met die hoogste vlakke van werkloosheid - wat groot kommer by die regering, besigheid en arbeid wek. Hierdie werkstuk ondersoek die funksionering van Suid-Afrika se arbeidmark met die doel om vas te stel of dit met die probleem van werkloosheid verband hou al dan nie. Die studie maak vergelykings ten opsigte van arbeidsbuigsaamheid tussen die wêreld se mees buigsame en gedereguleerde arbeidsmark (VSA) en Europa, en poog om Suid-Afrika se relatiewe posisie te bepaal. Die studie toon dat daar 'n verband tussen buigsaamheid en werkverskaffing is - dat lande met buigsame arbeidsmark, ceteris paribus, ook hoë vlakke van werkverskaffing het, en omgekeerd. Die studie het ook bevind dat 'n hoë vlak van ongeletterdheid, vakbondaktiwiteite en die nuwe arbeidswette aanleiding gegee het tot arbeidsmarkonbuigsaamheid, wat gedeeltelik verantwoordelik is vir die hoë werkloosheidsyfer in Suid-Afrika. Die studie toon verder dat enige poging deur Suid-Afrika om die arbeidsmarkbuigsaamheid van die VSA toe te pas, met ander beleidsmaatreëls gepaard moet gaan om maksimum voordele te verseker. Dit is gegrond op die bevinding dat buigsaamheid per se verreikende gevolge vir die ekonomie kan hê. Dit is nie net die onbuigsaamheid van die arbeidsmark wat vir die huidige hoë werkloosheidsyfer in Suid-Afrika verantwoordelik is nie. Faktore soos 'n volgehoue en stelselmatige afname in die kapasiteit om arbeid te absorbeer teenoor 'n volgehoue en stelselmatige toename in arbeidsaanbod, 'n afname in ekonomiese groei, en globalisering is vir 'n leeue-aandeel verantwoordelik.
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Van, de Rheede Taryn Joy. "Graduate unemployment in South Africa: extent, nature and causes." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4497.

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The South African economy faces a challenging socio-economic problem of high and persistent unemployment since the transition. Looking at the unemployment problem in greater perspective, numerous studies found that it is most serious amongst the youth. Since the beginning of the 2000s, a few studies focused particularly on youth and graduate unemployment, but there has been a lack of research in this area in recent years. Hence, this dissertation aims to fill some gap in the available research by investigating the extent, nature and causes of graduate unemployment in South Africa. This study firstly defined the relevant concepts and discussed some theories relevant to graduate unemployment, before reviewing the results of the past studies on the nature and extent of graduate unemployment. Thereafter, the possible causes were investigated, such as lack of experience, lack of soft skills, skills mismatch, poor quality of education of the graduates, discrimination by employers, etc. Graduate unemployment in India, China and Europe were also considered, and it was found that graduate unemployment was not in a unique problem in South Africa. The study proceeded with an analysis the Statistics South Africa 1995-2010 labour survey data and conducted more up-to-date statistical analyses of the profile of graduate unemployed. The results showed that the characteristics of unemployed graduates were, in general, the same as what was found by the previous studies, as graduate unemployed were more likely to be female and black, aged 15-34 years at the time of the survey, residing in Gauteng, with only post-Matric certificates or diplomas, and graduating from the fields of Business /Commerce / Management, and Education / Training / Development. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition was also applied, and the results indicated that employment discrimination against black graduates was very likely, after controlling for differences in demographic and educational attainment blacks and whites. Hence, the results of the empirical analysis showed that graduate unemployment persists. Finally, graduate employment elasticity coefficients and employment absorption rates were derived by educational attainment category, and the results showed that although graduate unemployment is clearly less serious than unemployment in other educational categories, the labour demand for graduates is not rapid enough to absorb all the graduates.
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Mayekiso, Sipokazi. "The impact of transport infrastructure investment on unemployment in South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2260.

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The transport infrastructure investment has been a subject of many studies for some time, mainly in improving and predicting the economic growth of the country and improving employment in South Africa. Given this, the study examines the impact of transport infrastructure investment on unemployment in South Africa by using time series econometric analysis over the period 1982-2012. Some key variables considered include unemployment, real GDP, real exchange rate, real interest rate, and trade openness total infrastructure investment exclude transport infrastructure investment. To separate the long and short run effect, VECM was employed after ensuring stationarity of the series. The study found that a long run relationship exist between the unemployment, transport infrastructure investment, real GDP, real exchange rate , real interest rate, trade openness and total infrastructure investment exclude transport infrastructure investment. The Results of this thesis have implications for policy and academic work.
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Maloka, Kingsley. "Implications of technological unemployment in financial services in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79610.

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The study was conducted to understand how technological unemployment is affecting financial services companies in South Africa. Technology investment is seen as creating and building competitive capabilities for companies and Countries, however with further investment in technology it may result in displacement of workers through automation of jobs. Considering the high unemployment, South Africa should be understanding the impacts of technology investment and developing responsive strategies to improve the unemployment problem. The research is grounded on technological unemployment theory which is the displacement of workers as result of technology advancement. The study included a review of skills development strategies which have been identified by various studies as key response to reducing the displacement of workers. It also included a review of how technology is changing company business models with the implementation of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in the financial services sector. The data collection followed qualitative research approach where interviews were conducted with Senior Leaders in the industry to understand their strategies and outlook on the future both unemployment and technology advancement.
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Makinana, Zoliswa L. "The impact of unemployment on people resinding in Kuyga." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020107.

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The study strives to highlight the factors contributing to unemployment in South Africa, specifically economic factors. The primary focus of the study is to analyse the impact of unemployment within the economy. The core the underlying causes of unemployment within the economy are low standard of education, low standard of living, and ineffective macroeconomic policies such as Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR). The assumption of the study is that unemployment is a socioeconomic issue which the government is struggling to address adequately. The study outlines the challenges faced by the government in tackling unemployment. It also uses the Kuyga Township as a case study, analysing the impact of unemployment and poverty within the community. The government has made efforts to address the aforementioned issue. It established specific macroeconomic policies to remedy the situation. However, these policies fell short and were ineffective. The apartheid system created an environment that continues to perpetuate both unemployment and poverty especially within poor communities. Kuyga Township has a high rate of unemployment which contributes to poverty. The study’s aim was to investigate the impact of unemployment in Nelson Mandela Bay area, determine the rate of unemployment, and compare strategies, projects and or programmes creating job opportunities in the area. It evaluated the success and failure of policies and strategies formulated to combat unemployment and alleviate poverty. The study also strived to determine the number of individuals affected by unemployment in Kuyga Township and the Nelson Mandela Bay area. The study makes recommendation and proposes plausible measures which the government could implement in order to manage and curtail the prevalence of unemployment and poverty within the Kuyga Township. It also highlights the role thatbusinesses can play in creating employment opportunities within the community.
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Nene, Siphamandla Ebehardt. "The impact of mergers and acquisitions on unemployment in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23723.

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Mergers, acquisition, and unemployment have been on the increase in South Africa since 1994 when South Africa became a democratic country. Unemployment is a major challenge facing the South African economy. International researchers have found that in most countries where mergers and acquisitions are encouraged, employees of the acquired companies tend to lose employment in years subsequent to those mergers. This research paper aimed at establishing whether South African employees had similar experiences as those overseas. Altogether 42 listed companies that have been acquired in the period between 1996 and 2008 for the value exceeding R500 million were used for the research. An additional 11 companies not undergoing mergers were also selected. The outcome was that acquired companies negatively affect employment. These companies are able to grow their businesses but not in correlation to growing their workforce.
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Books on the topic "Unemployment in South Africa"

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Naidoo, Ravi. Unemployment insurance in South Africa. Johannesburg: NALEDI, National Labour & Economic Development Institute, 1995.

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Cawker, Gary. Confronting unemployment in South Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1993.

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Nürnberger, Klaus. The scourge of unemployment in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Encounter Publications, 1990.

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Jordi, Richard. Unemployment in South Africa: A hidden world. [Cape Town]: Community Education Resources, 1988.

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Banerji, A. Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

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Kingdon, Geeta. Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach. Oxford: Centre for the Study of African Economies, 1999.

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Phakama, Ntshongwana, and Surender Rebecca, eds. Attitudes to work and social security in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2008.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1.

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Kingdon, G. Are searching aand non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high?: The case of South Africa. Oxford: University of Oxford, 2000.

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Kingdon, G. Are searching aand non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high?: The case of South Africa. Oxford: University of Oxford, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Unemployment in South Africa"

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Arnold, Guy. "Labour and Unemployment." In The New South Africa, 71–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230213852_8.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold in South Africa?" In Labour Market and Fiscal Policy Adjustments to Shocks, 43–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66520-7_3.

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Memis, Emel, and Rania Antonopoulos. "Unpaid Work, Poverty and Unemployment: A Gender Perspective from South Africa." In Unpaid Work and the Economy, 76–111. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230250550_4.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "An Evaluation of How the Has Performed in South Africa." In Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa, 91–115. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1_4.

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Seekings, Jeremy. "(Re)formulating the Social Question in Post-apartheid South Africa: Zola Skweyiya, Dignity, Development and the Welfare State." In One Hundred Years of Social Protection, 263–300. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54959-6_8.

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AbstractDemocratisation in 1994 meant that, for the first time, the South African state recognised that all South Africans had claims on and responsibilities to society. To address the racialised legacy of apartheid, the new government sought to expand opportunities for black South Africans—and hence solve the social question—through racially inclusive economic growth and development. The government initially viewed the system of social grants that it inherited as insufficiently developmental and worried about the poor becoming “dependent” on public support. When unemployment and poverty persisted, compounded by HIV/AIDS, reformers—including especially the Minister of Social Development from 1999 to 2009, Zola Skweyiya—reframed the social question in terms of dignity and responsibility and expanded the social grant system.
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Twinomurinzi, Hossana, and Joshua Magundini. "Youth Unemployment in South Africa and the Socio-economic Capabilities from Mobile Phones." In Locally Relevant ICT Research, 77–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11235-6_6.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "The Impact of Structural Change on the South African Economy: Evidence from the." In Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa, 203–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1_10.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "Is There a Case for Nominal GDP Growth Targeting in South Africa and Abandoning Inflation ?" In Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa, 117–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1_5.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "Introduction." In Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa, 1–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1_1.

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Gumata, Nombulelo, and Eliphas Ndou. "How Has the Intensity of the Ability of Commodity-Specific Output Growth to Create Jobs Evolved? Implications for the Mining Sector as a “Sunrise Industry”." In Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa, 225–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30884-1_11.

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Conference papers on the topic "Unemployment in South Africa"

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Patel, Dipali Pravin Chhaganlal, and Ireen Choga. "DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA." In 9th Economics & Finance Conference, London. International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.20472/efc.2018.009.016.

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Jubane, Marvelous. "STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA." In World Conference on Child and Youth. The International Institute of Knowledge Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/26731037.2020.2101.

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De Jongh, Jacobus Johannes. "UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS OF LONG-TERM YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: MICRO-LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA." In 52nd International Academic Conference, Barcelona. International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.052.015.

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von Solms, S., W. S. Hurter, and J. Meyer. "A Sustainable Model for Problem Based Learning in a South African School." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-68075.

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South Africa is currently facing an education dilemma with high numbers of youth unemployment and a growing specialized skills shortage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). STEM problem based learning events, hosted by government and the corporate sector, has shown to improve science and technology literacy and to encourage the youth to pursue tertiary education in the field of science. Unfortunately, schools face a range of challenges which restricts them from participating in these learning methods, depriving learners of the advantages offered by problem based learning. This paper presents a model for the sustainable provision of STEM problem based learning opportunities in South African schools. The presented model is based on a two-team mentoring model which makes problem based learning sustainable in a South African school environments. The Shell Eco Marathon is in its third year, and the students that have passed through the program will now be progressing to university. The impact of this program, therefore, will be become evident by the success of the students’ studies in the near future.
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Mulaudzi, Rudzani, and Ritesh Ajoodha. "An Exploration of Machine Learning Models to Forecast the Unemployment Rate of South Africa: A Univariate Approach." In 2020 2nd International Multidisciplinary Information Technology and Engineering Conference (IMITEC). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/imitec50163.2020.9334090.

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Mulaudzi, Rudzani, and Ritesh Ajoodha. "Application of Deep Learning to Forecast the South African Unemployment Rate: A Multivariate Approach." In 2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csde50874.2020.9411581.

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Ngwane, Knowledge, and Kwanda Cebekhulu. "AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL MEDIUM MICRO ENTERPRISES (SMMES) IN REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE STUDY OF UMSUNDUZI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IN KWAZULU-NATAL." In 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. IATED, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2020.1677.

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Gledhill, Igle. "Welcome to South Africa!" In WOMEN IN PHYSICS: 4th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics. AIP, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4794208.

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Koekemoer, Silma, and Rossouw von Solms. "IT project management maturity in South African municipalities." In 2017 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/istafrica.2017.8102369.

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Greenan, Taylor. "Phylogeography ofLigiaisopods in South Africa." In 2016 International Congress of Entomology. Entomological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/ice.2016.115493.

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Banerjee, Abhijit, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, and Ingrid Woolard. Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13167.

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Ndhlovu, Lewis, Catherine Searle, and Johannes van Dam. Strengthening STI treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention services in Carletonville, South Africa. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/hiv15.1001.

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Although knowledge about HIV/AIDS is widespread in South Africa, adult HIV prevalence is high, indicating high levels of risky sexual behavior. Understanding the gap between knowledge and behavior requires an examination of the social context in which the epidemic occurs. The Horizons Program conducted an intervention study in the Carletonville area to study the social determinants of the HIV epidemic and to assess the impact of a targeted program of HIV and STI prevention and service delivery. In 1998, the Mothusimpilo (“Working together for health”) Intervention Project (MIP) was launched to reduce community prevalence of HIV and other STIs and to sustain those reductions through enhanced prevention and STI treatment services. Carletonville includes many migrant mine workers and is characterized by significant poverty and unemployment, the presence of sex work, and high rates of STIs. MIP targets population groups where high-risk sexual behavior is thought to be common. This brief focuses on sex workers because of their vulnerability to STIs and HIV infection and their link to miners and men in the broader community.
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Todaro, Michael. Urbanization, unemployment and migration in Africa: Theory and policy. Population Council, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy6.1004.

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Kaufman, Carol. Reproductive control in South Africa. Population Council, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy6.1001.

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Todaro, Michael. Urbanization, unemployment and migration in Africa: Theory and policy [Arabic]. Population Council, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy6.1005.

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Gopaldas, Ronak. Africa Current Issues - Can South Africa / Nigeria Relations be Recalibrated? Nanyang Business School, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32655/africacurrentissues.2019.11.

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Temchin, Jerome. Carbon reduction emissions in South Africa. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/808753.

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Wright, Gemma, Michael Noble, Phakama Ntshongwana, David Neves, and Helen Barnes. Defining Lone Motherhood in South Africa. Unknown, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii197.

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Ebrahim, Amina. COVID-19 and socioeconomic impact in Africa: The case of South Africa. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/wbn/2020-2.

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Kunene, Busi, Mags Beksinska, Simphiwe Zondi, Nobuhle Mthembu, Saiqa Mullick, Emma Ottolenghi, Immo Kleinschmidt, Susan Adamchak, Barbara Janowitz, and Carmen Cuthbertson. Involving men in maternity care: South Africa. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh4.1204.

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