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Aliber, M., Baipheti, M. & Jacobs, P. (2007) Agricultural employment scenarios. (August).
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This paper seeks to re-examine the potential of agriculture to contribute to job creation and poverty reduction in South Africa. It does so mainly through simple spreadsheet-based 'scenario analysis' that seeks to illustrate what is conceivable, complemented by commentary as to what is feasible and likely. It is a re-examination in the sense that there have been various earlier attempts to do m...
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Aliber, M. (2005) Addressing the challenges of the second economy in South Africa. (A discussion paper for the Office of the Deputy President, December).
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Altman, M. (2011) Employment creation targets are achievable. HSRC Review. 9(1):4-5.
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The government is committed to halving unemployment between 2004 and 2014. The HSRC employment scenarios show this required the creation of five million jobs. With the downturn, the same objective has been restated. But running up to 2020, can it be achieved? Yes, absolutely, says MIRIAM ALTMAN.
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Altman, M. (2010) The context for career guidance in urban & rural areas addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa. (Paper presented to the National Career Guidance Conference, 14 May).
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Altman, M. (2010) Promoting economic development & capacity through procurement. (Paper presented to the 3rd Annual Tshwane International Trade and Infrastructure Investment Conference, CSIR ICC, 24 May).
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Altman, M. (2009) "Working in the cities". (Paper presented to SACN 3rd Urban Conference on State of the Cities, Feathermarket Hall, Nelson Mandela Bay, 24-25 November).
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Altman, M. (2009) Can South Africa's employment targets be met in the context of the global economic crisis?. (May).
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The scenarios are updated in this paper to take into account the potentially dramatic impact of the global economic crisis (GEC). A straight path from historical to future employment figures will no longer be relevant, and therefore need to be interrogated. There is little doubt that employment growth will be affected for at least a few years, and could be affected for a decade. There is absolu...
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Altman, M. (2009) Creating jobs in tough times. HSRC Review. 7(1):19-20.
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The global economic downturn poses serious challenges to South Africa's hopes of halving unemployment between 2004 and 2014, a target most recently reaffirmed in the ANC election manifesto, released in January.
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Altman, M. (2009) Employment in the development path. (Paper presented to the Department of Trade and Industry, 13 July).
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Altman, M. (2009) Youth employability. (Paper presented to the Department of Higher Education, 30 November).
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Altman, M. (2009) Youth employment: challenges and opportunities. (Paper presented to the Tshwane Youth Development Unit Induction & Strategic Planning Workshop, 23 May).
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Altman, M. & Burns, J. (2008) Reducing youth unemployment in South Africa: where to intervene?. (August).
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Altman, M. & Hemson, D. (2008) The role of expanded public works programmes in halving unemployment. (February).
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This paper reviews the impact of EPWP on unemployment to date. The paper then looks to its contribution in future, particularly in the context of government's commitment to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014. Some of the challenges in scaling up to meet unemployment targets are outlined.
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Altman, M. (2008) Time to mobilise frustrated jobless youth. HSRC Review. 6(3):19-20.
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The recent attacks have been described as 'xenophobic' but should really be seen as an expression of frustration. It was a matter of time before large groups of angry marginalised people acted out, says Miriam Altman.
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Altman, M. (2007) Employment scenarios to 2024. (September).
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Unemployment and low levels of economic participation are amongst the greatest challenges facing South African society, economy and therefore government. In this light, the South African government has adopted targets of halving unemployment and poverty by 2014. This would reduce unemployment from about 26% in 2004 to 13% in 2014. This paper assembles a set of possible scenarios for 2024, on th...
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Altman, M. (2007) Youth labour market challenges in South Africa. (September).
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This paper identifies some labour market challenges facing South African youth. It aims to promote debate as part of the HSRC's Youth Initiative. In South Africa, youth are twice as likely to be unemployed, with 58% of young people aged 15-19 and 50% aged 20-24 unemployed in 2005. However, the South African concept of 'youth' (15-34 years old) might not be very helpful to a discussion about la...
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Altman, M. (2006) The employment puzzle: understanding employment & unemployment in SA. (Presentation to the World Bank, 1 March).
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Altman, M. (2006) Identifying employment-creating sectors in South Africa: the role of services industries. Development Southern Africa. 23(5):627-647.
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This paper explores scenarios for employment creation, with an emphasis on services. It considers whether the government?s current policies for the formal services sector will achieve its 2014 target of halving unemployment. New employment has mainly been found in the formal and non-formal services, and future employment will probably come from such sectors as business services,
trade, finance...
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Altman, M. (2006) Setting targets for unemployment reduction and employment creation. (November).
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Altman, M. & Woolard, I. (2004) Employment & unemployment trends in South Africa 1995-2002. (April).
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Altman, M. (2004) Halving unemployment?. HSRC review. 2(3):8-9.
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Altman, M. Steps to keep pace with job needs. Cape Times. (26 November 2004)
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Altman, M. (2003) The state of employment and unemployment in South Africa. In State of the nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Daniel, J., Habib, A. & Southall, R. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 158-183.
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This chapter outlines the experience of employment, under employment and unemployment, and then moves on to explain possible causes and policy implications.
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Amoateng, A., Kalule-Sabiti, I. & Lucas, D. (2004) South Africa's human capital in the 1990s. Applied population and policy. 1(2):123-131.
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The unsatisfactory human capital situation in South Africa in the 1990s is reflected by several indicators, notably the high unemployment rates of the African majority and their poor education relative to that the white minority. Much of the data used comes from the 1996 census, the first enumeration to be held after the dismantling of apartheid. African males and females, and especially thos...
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Baartjes, N., Auchterlonie, A., Sorenson, P. & Goode, R. (2007) Mining employment scenarios for South Africa to 2024. (August).
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This report was prepared for the HSRC and seeks to investigate potential employment in the South African mining industry. The paper focuses on:
1. An assessment of the rate and nature of investment in South Africa's mining industry. This necessarily has to be conducted on a commodity-specific basis and be based on global supply / demand scenarios and planned investments.
2. An assessment o...
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Davies, R. & Thurlow, J. (2009) Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa. (March).
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South Africa?s high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector are attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers-to-entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economy-wide linkages between formal and informal economies while accounting for different types of informal activities. A multi-region empirically calibrated general equilibrium model is
developed captur...
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Davies, R. (2009) Towards a leading indicator of employment in South Africa. (Paper presented to LIESA, 22 July).
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Du Toit, R. (2012) An assessment of skills development interventions in South Africa: skills development for the unemployed: the national skills fund and training of the unemployed. HSRC Review. 10(1):16-17.
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International studies on the impact of training for the unemployed have reported mixed results; some found that training has increased employment possibilities, while others have found that public job-training programmes did not help people finding jobs. Closer to home, ReNETTE DU TOIT analysed the success of placements following training opportunities afforded by the National Skills Fund (NSF)...
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Du Toit, R. (2012) The NSF as a mechanism to address skills development of the unemployed in South Africa. (Commissioned by the Department of Labour (DoL), January).
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The general approach to the study was to conduct a statistical overview of the information on training opportunities contained in the National Skills Fund Disbursement Information System (NSFDIS), complemented by five provincial case studies focusing on best practice projects, in order to deepen the perspective on the dynamics of training. A number of pertinent issues had an impact on the desig...
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du Toit, R. (2003) Unemployed youth in South Africa: the distressed generation?. (Paper presented at the Minnesota International Couseling Institute (MICI), 27 July - 1 August).
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After a long contemplation of the human condition, Freud nominated work and love as the two essential ingredients of a healthy and well-adjusted personality. Work has always been part of man?s history and a crucial factor in social organization. The earliest prehistoric people sustained themselves by hunting and fishing. Cultures developed and a division of labor replaced an essentially nomad...
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Erasmus, J.C., Steyn, S.C. & Mentz, J.P. (2005) Expectations of the unemployed in South Africa: an education system perspective. Africa education review. 2(1):16-39.
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Hassen, E.-K. & Altman, M. (2007) Employment scenarios for the public service in South Africa. (August).
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The public service is a significant source of employment in South Africa, accounting for about 13% to 14% of formal employment. Until recently, it played a diminishing role, dampening employment growth in the economy. What should its role be in employment creation, if any? This is a particularly important question in the context of high structural unemployment, with a labour market that is char...
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Hassen, E.-K. (2007) The second economy and 'dead assets': why we must think beyond de Soto. (Paper presented at the colloquium hosted in June 2006 by the Graduate School of Public and Development Management of the University of the Witwatersrand and the Development Bank of southern Africa).
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Hawkins, P. (2006) Exchange rates, growth and unemployment. (Prepared by FEASibility for EGDI, September).
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Higson-Smith, C., Richter, L. & Altman, M. (2004) Care as vocation and occupation. In: Watson, R. & Swartz, L. (eds). Transformation through occupation. London: Whurr Publishers. 254-267.
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the most important policy for socially equitable development is full employment. The unemployed are not just a statistic or an underutilized resource that could have increased gross domestic product. They are people, and no numbers can convey the degree of disruption that unemployment brings to their lives, their livelihoods, and the well-being of their families. Although safety nets and tar...
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Hodge, D. (2005) The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade and employment: a brief review of the literature. (June).
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Jacobs, P.T., Baiphethi, M., Ngcobo, N. & Hart, T. (2010) The potential of social grants expenditure to promote local economic development and job creation. (March).
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This paper argues for developmental social policy and explores options to use social grants transfer instruments (cash, in-kind and vouchers) to achieve localized pro-poor developmental outcomes. Conceptually, this reports draws inspiration from the analytical contributions to redistributive social welfare literature by Amartya Sen, Jean Dreze and Thandika Mkandawire. Amartya
Sen and his co-wo...
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Kok, P., Cross, C. & Roux, N. (2010) Towards a demographic profile of the street homeless in South Africa. Development Southern Africa. 27(1):21-37.
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This paper provides a demographic analysis of the Human Sciences Research Council homelessness survey, and starts to develop a profile of the adult and child street homeless populations in the northern part of South Africa. Attempting to sketch the population dynamics of homelessness, the paper reviews research methodology, looks at the age, gender and employment status of the respondents, and...
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Kok, P.C., O'Donovan, M.A. & Miles, M. (2000) Migration and employment. In The state of South Africa's population report 2000: population, poverty and vulnerability. Pretoria: National Population Unit, Department of Social Development. 14-26.
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Kongolo, M. & Imenda, S.N. (2009) A survey of job loss in selected communities around Johannesburg, South Africa. African Research Review. 3(4):453-460.
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This paper reported on a survey of job loss in selected communities around Johannesburg, South Africa. Six communities were purposively selected to participate in this study on the basis of a perceived high incidence of job losses among them as a result of retrenchments, downsizing and plant closures. In each community questionnaires were distributed to, and interviews held with, a sample of re...
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Kruss van der Heever, G.E. (2002) Employment and employability: expectations of higher education responsiveness. (Report for the Council on Higher Education. (Also circulated as background paper at the CHE colloquium)).
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Kruss, G. (2004) Employment and employability: expectations of higher education responsiveness.. (Paper presented at the UCT Environmental Scan Seminar, Glenara, 23 February 2004).
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Lee, D. & Woolard, I.D. (2002) A typological of the unemployment: a policy-orientated approach. (DPRU/FES conference paper 2002: labour markets and poverty Johannesburg, 22-24 October 2002: Muldersdrift).
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Mayer, M.J. & Altman, M. (2005) South Africa's economic development trajectory: implications for skills development. Journal of education and work. 18(1):33-56.
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This article argues that skills development in South Africa must be aligned to the economic and political imperatives of reducing unemployment and poverty, while fostering growth and international competitiveness. The legacy of a resource-based economy, overlaid by apartheid policies, has resulted in widespread poverty, inequality and unemployment existing alongside globally competitive industr...
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Mazibuko, S. (2008) Social functions of natural resources in the Tembe area of Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Social Development in Africa. 23(1):61-88.
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People living adjacent to the Tembe Elephant Park in Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa are highly dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. The extremely high employment levels in the area mean that the people need to engage in multiple activities to diversify risks. The area is generally poor in terms of agricultural activity because the soils are naturally unsuitable for...
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Meth, C. (2008) Social income in South Africa, an economy marred by high unemployment, poverty and extreme inequality. (April).
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Disagreements in South Africa over what has happened to the severity of poverty and, less prominently, inequality, have served to stimulate debate about the social wage. Although government has made much of the few pieces of research on the question of the impact of the social wage on poverty, the truth is that, given the extreme difficulties of measurement, not much reliance can be placed on e...
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Michie, J. (2003) The institutional underpinnings of the unemployment-inflation relationship: a review paper. (October).
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The Phillips curve depicted a trade-off between unemployment and inflation. As the economy grows faster and unemployment falls, it becomes easier for workers to gain wage rises and for firms to raise prices ? either to pass on increased costs or even to
raise profit margins. This is particularly so if bottlenecks occur because of insufficient capacity. If there is a shortage of a particular ty...
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Motala, S. (2009) Profiling poverty dimensions in South Africa. (Paper presented to the IQRAA Conference, 1 July).
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Ngandu, S. (2009) Employment and the development path: employment indicators. (Paper presented on 13 July).
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Ngcobo, N. (2009) The challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa. (Paper presented at the HSRC Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 16 September).
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Phillips, S., Harrison, K., Mondlane, M., Van Steenderen, W., Gordon, R., Oosthuizen, M., Weir-Smith, G. & Altman, M. (2009) Evaluation of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the North West. (Commissioned by the North West Department of Public Works, Road and Transport, October).
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The aim of this study was to assess the performance of the EPWP in the North West in the first five years of the programme, with the aim of producing recommendations for scaling up the programme in the next five years. The study included case studies of
three environmental sector, three infrastructure sector, and an environmental sector project; interviews and workshops, and desktop review. In...
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Potgieter-Gqubule, F. & Ngcobo, N. (2009) The state of youth in South Africa: social dynamics. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, December).
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Prinsloo, C.H., Arends, F., Roodt, J., Erasmus, J., Mokgatle, G. & Joynt, K. (2011) An assessment of the implementation of the Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA). (Commissioned and funded by the Department of Labour (DoL), March).
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The aim of this study was to identify challenges in the implementation of ESSA and to identify and make recommendations on areas of improvement and strengthening.
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Roberts, B., Struwig, J. & Rule, S. (2010) Facing the nation: South Africa's most important challenges. HSRC Review. 8(4):7-9.
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In this article BEN ROBERTS, JARE STRUWIG and STEPHEN RULE examine the relative ranking by the South African public of challenges facing our society, the extent to which these priorities have been changing in recent years, as well as differences among subpopulations.
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Seager, J. (2006) Quality of life, poverty and environment. (Paper presented to the National Environmental Advirosry Forum, Mainstreaming of the Environment into Development Issueas and Opportunities relatin to AsgiSA, Pretoria, 3 October).
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Setswe, G. & Nkomo, N. (2007) Report on experiences in the Amandlamadoda (menpower) sexual and reproductive project in Umkhanyakude, KwaZulu-Natal. (Commissioned by the AIDS Foundation South Africa, October).
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This report documents the experiences of participants and staff in the Amandlamadoda project in Umkhanyakude district. Three methods used to collect data for documenting the experiences of participants and staff in the project. These included the review of key project documents, three focus group discussions with men in the community and executive committee members in Umkhanyakude and four key ...
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Shisana, O. (2008) Bridging the second economy. In: Turok, B. (ed). Wealth doesn't trickle down: the case for a developmental state in South Africa. Cape Town: New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy. 183-191.
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There are two societies in South Africa, one similar to those found in very highly developed economies, and the other similar to underdeveloped countries. This two-tiered economy poses challenges when planning development. Can those living in the underdeveloped part of South Africa be integrates into the highly developed part of the economy? To answer this question it is important to clarify...
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Sibanyoni, M.C. (1999) The consolidation of democracy in South Africa. (Paper presented at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies Conference, New School University, New York, 17 December 1999).
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Argues that with a sustainable economic growth and declining socio-economic inequalities, social conflict is less likely to adversely affect democratic consolidation in South Africa.
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Smith, C. (1993) International experience with worker-side and employer-side wage and employment subsidies, and job search assistance programmes: implications for South Africa. (April).
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This paper will discuss the design and purpose of these programmes, and explore which have been most successful in recent history, and which are likely to be most beneficial for improving the labour market prospects of South Africa?s large unemployed population.
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Tilley, V. Inside 1701: what the UN security council's ceasefire resolution actually says. Counterpunch. (19-20 August 2006)
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Tregenna, F. (2007) Accounting for changes in manufacturing employment in South Africa. In: Deshpande, A. (ed). Globalization and development: a handbook of new perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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The objective of this study is to understand the components, as well as the possible causal determinants of the changes in manufacturing employment in South Africa. This paper focuses on the relationships between capital stock, capacity utilization, relative factor utilization and employment.
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Trudell, B., King, K., McGrath, S.A. & Nugent, P. (eds). (2002) Africa's young majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African studies, University of Edinburgh.
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Visser, M. & Kruss, G. (2009) Learnerships and skills development in South Africa: a shift to prioritise the young unemployed. Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 61(3):357-374.
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Much is expected from the new learnership system implemented in South Africa a mere seven years ago as a key component in putting a multi-pronged National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) into operation. The learnership system is expected to foster skills development in the formal economy, as well as assist new entrants into employment. There is a debate as to whether the priority for the sys...
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