Browsing by Subject "J24"

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    Student Graduation, Labour Market Destinations and Employment Earnings
    (2012-11) Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha; Visser, Mariette
    This paper investigates the labour market destinations of graduates from seven higher education institutions in South Africa. A three-step estimation procedure is employed in which the relative importance of covariates such as age, race, and gender in each stage from educational attainment to pre-defined labour market outcomes, is estimated.
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    Why is Youth Unemployment so High and Unequally spread in South Africa?
    (2002-05) Mlatsheni, Cecil; Rospabe, Sandrine
    Not only does the South African labour market exhibit a high unemployment rate for the young, according to international standards, but it also shows evidence of large inequalities between age groups, races and genders. Thus, this paper first seeks to explain these stylised factsinvestigating the microeconomic determinants of employment for different groups of the population.