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Title Youth unemployment in South Africa since 2000 revisited
Date 2013
Author(s) Yu, Derek
Abstract One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economyis 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.
Subject(s) Employability, Employer Requirements, Employer Survey, Workers, Work Environment, Workload
Type of publication Research Report (Not Peer Reviewed)
Format Pdf
Identifier h
Repository Cape Town - AHERO, University of Western Cape
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