Revisiting unemployment levels and trends in South Africa since the transition

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dc.contributor.authorYu, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-09T07:27:33Z
dc.date.available2017-06-09T07:27:33Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractMany recent studies compared the 1995 October Household Survey (OHS) with the latest available Labour Force Survey (LFS) to derive the unemployment ‘trends’ in South Africa since the transition, but this approach only gives a snapshot of unemployment at two points in time. Although the better approach is to examine all available labour surveys to derive the real unemployment trends during the period, this does not mean these trends are fully reliable and comparable, as the sampling method, weighting technique, questionnaire design and labour market status derivation methodology to define the unemployed are different across the surveys. In particular, the unemployment estimates in OHS 1995–99 and during the changeover between OHS and LFS in both narrow and broad terms increased rapidly. This paper aimed to address these issues, if possible, in order to improve the comparability and reliability of unemployment aggregates across the surveys.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved list
dc.identifier.citationYu, D. (2013). Revisiting unemployment levels and trends in South Africa since the transition. Development Southern Africa, 30 (6): 701-723en_US
dc.identifier.issn0376-835X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2944
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.830242
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor Francis Groupen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.830242
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectLabour market trendsen_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.subjectDiscouraged workseekersen_US
dc.subjectHousehold surveyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleRevisiting unemployment levels and trends in South Africa since the transitionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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