Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns
| dc.contributor.author | Cichello, Paul L | |
| dc.contributor.author | Almeleh, Colin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mncube, Liberty | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oosthuizen, Morne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-28T10:38:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-28T10:38:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-28T08:04:53Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In South Africa, the broad unemployment rate for Africans has remained near or above forty percent for most of the last ten years. One critical reason is the relatively low level of employment in small-scale entrepreneurial work. This paper explores the factors that constrain individuals from engaging in self-employment activities in a large township in Cape Town. Crime is perceived to be the dominant hindrance to entering the micro-enterprise sector. A number of other hindrances, including capital constraints, transportation costs, and community jealousy, are on par or surpass concerns over profitability or government regulation. These findings are robust to a series of alternative ranking scheme. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Cichello, P. L., Almeleh, C., Mncube, L., & Oosthuizen, M. (2011). <i>Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19288 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Cichello, Paul L, Colin Almeleh, Liberty Mncube, and Morne Oosthuizen <i>Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19288 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cichello, P., Almeleh, C., Ncube, L., & Oosthuizen, M. (2006). Perceived barriers to entry into self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk and start-up capital dominate profit concerns. Accelerated and Shared Growth in South Africa: Determinants, Constraints and Opportunities, 35. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Cichello, Paul L AU - Almeleh, Colin AU - Mncube, Liberty AU - Oosthuizen, Morne AB - In South Africa, the broad unemployment rate for Africans has remained near or above forty percent for most of the last ten years. One critical reason is the relatively low level of employment in small-scale entrepreneurial work. This paper explores the factors that constrain individuals from engaging in self-employment activities in a large township in Cape Town. Crime is perceived to be the dominant hindrance to entering the micro-enterprise sector. A number of other hindrances, including capital constraints, transportation costs, and community jealousy, are on par or surpass concerns over profitability or government regulation. These findings are robust to a series of alternative ranking scheme. DA - 2011 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2011 T1 - Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns TI - Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19288 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19288 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Cichello PL, Almeleh C, Mncube L, Oosthuizen M. Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns. 2011 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19288 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.title | Perceived Barriers to Entry into Self-employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |