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- ItemMetadata onlyAn analysis of formal sector employment in South Africa: Its implications for poverty and future economic strategies(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Abedian, Iraj; Schneier, Steffen
- ItemMetadata onlyDuration of unemployment in youth transitions from schooling to work in Cape Town(2017-06-06) Mlatsheni, Cecil; Leibbrandt, Murray
- ItemMetadata onlyEducation and youth unemployment in South Africa(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil
- ItemMetadata onlyEstimating the Effects of South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive – An Update(2017-06-06) Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden
- ItemMetadata onlyEstimating the short run effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach(2015-05-28) Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden
- ItemOpen AccessFactors affecting how the youth in the townships use internet to seek employment: case of a township in Cape Town(2019) Kunene, Khaya; Chigona, WallaceProblem Statement: South Africa is currently facing a challenge of youth unemployment. The hardest hit are those from low income communities, as they in addition have limited access to information. The Internet has proven to be one of the ways in which recruitment is done and failure to access reduces the opportunities. The purpose of the research: The main objective of this study was to understand how the youth living in the townships use the Internet to seek for employment. The purpose of this study is to assess how the Internet use affect the youth when searching for employment. Design/methodology/ approach: An interpretivist approach was employed to understand how the youth seek employment. This study used a qualitative approach to collect the data. Interviews were done using semi-structured questions. Alampay (2006) Capability Approach (CA) was used as a guide to conceptualise how the youth from low-income communities use the Internet to find employment. Borrowing from the four main constructs (conversion factors, freedom, capabilities and functionings) employed by Alampay (2006) in his model, this study operationalised the Alampay (2006) CA model by adding the ICT commodities as the fifth construct. The CA was chosen as an appropriate framework for this study because the framework focuses on what humans are able to do and achieve when presented with the available ICT resources. Findings: The findings demonstrate that the lack of resources, income, information and digital skills affected the individual capabilities to effectively use the Internet when seeking employment. The success rate in finding a job using the Internet was low among job seekers. Commodities, individual differences, social and environmental factors affected how the youth (18-34 years) from low-income communities use the Internet to find employment. In addition, crime, poor network coverage, expensive data bundles and limited access to ICT resources were among the key factors that contributed to limited use of the Internet among job seekers. Research Contribution: This study seeks to close the gap in limited knowledge available in developing countries with regards to the use of the Internet among job seekers. Therefore, based on the study findings, this thesis has contributed towards adding value to the body of knowledge within the field of Information Systems. In addition, the findings can contribute towards assisting policy makers in solving challenges faced by the unemployment youth in developing countries when using technology to find employment.
- ItemMetadata onlyHow do the non-searching unemployed feel about their situation? On the definition of unemployment.(Econ3x3.org, 2015-05-28) Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray
- ItemMetadata onlyLabor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Hosegood, Victoria
- ItemMetadata onlyLabour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa(CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, Vimal
- ItemOpen AccessMulti-Dimensional Forms of Poverty Experienced by Unemployed HIV-positive Mothers Living in Khayelitsha(2009) Kane, DiannaFor the millions of unemployed South Africans, poverty is a daily experience. However, traditional economic measures of poverty are failing to provide policy makers with a full picture of the lived experience of poverty. Through two years of participant observation at Philani Nutrition Center, conversations and home visits with local outreach workers, and in-depth interviews with five HIVpositive unemployed mothers in Khayelitsha, this paper explores the multiple dimensions of poverty experienced by these mothers and their children. Using class and gender-based theories of structural oppression, this paper argues that these mothers are marginalised from the labour market and are members of a distinct unemployed underclass. Three main findings emerged from this study. One, the state of chronic unemployment has profound effects on both the material and emotional wellbeing of these women and their families. As a result of the years of race- and class-based discrimination, their opportunities to improve their situations are minimal. Two, the presence of HIV illness serves to reinforce the continued reproduction of this disadvantage through its debilitating physical and social effects. The mother's own HIV illness, as well as the intensive care required by HIV-positive children, limits a mother's ability to work and ensure the child's wellbeing. Three, the structure of patriarchy further ties mothers to their domestic and childcare responsibilities, often without the support of their partners. Unemployment and insufficient social assistance increases their pressure to earn an income in addition to fulfilling daily household responsibilities. It is important to understand how poverty manifests itself in the lives of these women and their children in order to design poverty reduction strategies that address the many dimensions of their experience. The structural causes for their poverty need to be recognised in order to motivate meaningful changes in our society, with the goal of creating an enabling environment for these mothers. This will then provide the mothers with the space in which to transcend their current position in the underclass and ensure the many aspects of wellbeing for themselves and their children.
- ItemMetadata onlyNew evidence on subjective well-being and the definition of unemployment in South Africa(Development Southern Africa, 2015-05-28) Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray
- ItemMetadata onlyNew evidence on subjective wellbeing and the definition of unemployment in South Africa(2015-05-28) Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray
- ItemMetadata onlyPublic Works as a Response to Labour Market Failure in South Africa(CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) McCord, Anna
- ItemRestrictedShould youth unemployment be targeted as part of a comprehensive welfare policy in South Africa2?(2002) Nattrass, NicoliA scheme to address youth unemployment is not an appropriate component of a social welfare net in South Africa because a higher proportion of older unemployed people are poor. Age is a very blunt proxy for inexperience (and associated labour market disadvantage) in South Africa. Placement programmes may help individuals find work, but to the overall welfare impact is undermined by substitution effects. Training programmes should not be seen as an answer to the unemployment problem (although it may help address some labour market problems). Training programmes for the unemployed are often weakly connected with the skill requirements of employers and can easily lead to an over‐supply of specific skills. Given the difficulties involved in targeting the relatively disadvantaged amongst the unemployed, one has to ask whether resources are better spent elsewhere.
- ItemMetadata onlySocial Networks, Employment and Worker Discouragement: Evidence from South Africa(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Godlonton, Susan; Burns, Justine
- ItemOpen AccessA South African variety of capitalism?(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Nattrass, NicoliThis paper explores the South African political economy through the lens of a variety of capitalism (VoC) approach. It argues that attempts were made in the early post-apartheid period to forge a more social-democratic and co-ordinated variety of capitalism, but that this floundered as the government adopted neoliberal macroeconomic policies against the wishes of organised labour, and as black economic empowerment policies further undermined an already racially-fraught business sector. Organised labour was able to push for, and maintain, protective labour market policies – but this came at the cost of growing policy inconsistency notably with regard to trade liberalisation which, in the presence of growing labour-market protection, has exacerbated South Africa's unemployment crisis. Unemployment remains intractable (and with it inequality) and corruption/patrimonialism appears to be a growing problem.
- ItemOpen AccessA South African variety of capitalism?(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Nattrass, NicoliThis paper explores the South African political economy through the lens of a variety of capitalism (VoC) approach. It argues that attempts were made in the early post-apartheid period to forge a more social-democratic and co-ordinated variety of capitalism, but that this floundered as the government adopted neoliberal macroeconomic policies against the wishes of organised labour, and as black economic empowerment policies further undermined an already raciallyfraught business sector. Organised labour was able to push for, and maintain, protective labour market policies – but this came at the cost of growing policy inconsistency notably with regard to trade liberalisation which, in the presence of growing labour-market protection, has exacerbated South Africa’s unemployment crisis. Unemployment remains intractable (and with it inequality) and corruption/ patrimonialism appears to be a growing problem.
- ItemMetadata onlyStrategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?(2017-06-06) Ebrahim, Amina; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid
- ItemMetadata onlySurviving unemployment without state support: Unemployment and household formation in South Africa(CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) Klasen, Stephen; Woolard, Ingrid
- ItemMetadata onlyThe basic homework on basic income grants in South Africa(CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) Archer, Sean