Author:Fryer, David; Vencatachellum, DesireDate:Jun 2004South Africa lost more than 890,000 jobs, but saw an increase in the number of skilled workers from 1989 to 1999. We argue that this is the consequence of well-documented acute apartheid-era distortions which led to a current coordination ...Read morecbna
Author:Duff, Patrick; Fryer, DavidDate:Sep 2005This paper argues that the economic literature on unemployment and poverty in South Africa has under-explored potentially important feedback mechanisms which, because they serve to change the structure of labour markets and affect human capital ...Read morecbna
Author:Fryer, David; Vencatachellum, DesireDate:May 2003We develop a model where blacks in the private sector earn no returns to education if there are relatively too few educated blacks. Using a sample of black females in the late apartheid Kwa Zulu to control for labour market specific effects, ...Read morecbna
Author:Fryer, David; Vencatachellum, DesireDate:May 2003We develop a model where blacks in the private sector earn no returns to education if there are relatively too few educated blacks. Using a sample of black females in the late apartheid Kwa Zulu to control for labour market specific effects, ...Read morecbna