Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited

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dc.contributor.authorYu, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-05T09:48:16Z
dc.date.available2016-04-05T09:48:16Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractOne of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies only briefly examined how the youths fared since the transition by comparing the 1995 October Household Survey (OHS) with a Labour Force Survey (LFS), and hardly investigated whether the discouraged workseekers are different from the unemployed. Moreover, a new labour market status derivation methodology has been adopted since the inception of Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008. Although the unemployed in QLFSs are derived similarly as in OHSs and LFSs, the discouraged workseekers are distinguished very differently. This paper applies the QLFS methodology with minor revisions on all LFSs to derive comparable youth labour market trends since 2000, before re-examining the extent of youth unemployment. The characteristics of discouraged workseekers and narrow unemployed are then compared, before investigating whether different policies are needed to boost youth employment in each group.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography for Social Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.citationYu, D. et al. (2013). Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited. Development Southern Africa, 30 (4 & 5): 545-563en_US
dc.identifier.issn0376-835X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2104
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.830964
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherTaylor Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author final version of the published article article available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.830964. A freely available working paper version of the article has also been uploaded.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectEmploymenten_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.subjectDiscouraged workseekersen_US
dc.subjectWage subsidyen_US
dc.subjectLabour market trendsen_US
dc.titleYouth unemployment in South Africa revisiteden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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