There’s a case for greater investment in support for postgraduate education.
- Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
Where children in a household are working, adults may stop looking for jobs.
Many African countries have a major youth unemployment problem. More must be done to create jobs and help young people develop the right skills.
South Africa’s challenge is how to break the cycle of people becoming locked in chronic unemployment who may not be employable in the long term.
Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
Knowing who is most vulnerable to COVID can be used to guide resource allocation and help the design of risk mitigation strategies.
Factors such as not being able to handle their study load and living too far from campus led to students not attending class.
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Joblessness has become a fixture of the South African economy. Understanding the patterns of who is out of work and for how long is key to designing policies to address the problem.
Labour migrants from other provinces into Gauteng and the Western Cape are more likely to be employed than the two provinces’ permanent residents.
More financial services should target low-income households in South Africa.
Paid employment is no longer a guarantee that workers will earn enough to cover their basic needs and become relatively secure financially. Hence the global phenomenon of the working poor.
Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called “churning”.
A newish method called the multidimensional poverty index is revealing new insights into the South Africa’s poverty.
A deeper analysis of South Africa’s joblessness reveals a scarier picture of large sections of the population suffering, especially the country’s youth.
South Africa’s labour market suffers from high unemployment. Reform of the education system may provide the only long-term sustainable solution to the problem.
