relationship between unemployment and growth. We distinguish low-skilled and high-skilled labour and assume that a union bargains … over the low-skilled labour wage. This causes unemployment, but the growth e ect is ambiguous. On the one hand the higher …

South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …