Presents the findings of a survey of 2344 persons, carried out in April and May 1992.

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining trends relating to labour supply emanating from Black African migrant worker emigration from Southern Africa to South Africa R, with particular reference to the gold mining industry - discusses changes affecting foreign labour demand, legal aspects, wage...

Suggests major developments needed in the Department of Employment and Youth, in order to achieve an acceptably high level of capability to manage the labour market in support of national social and economic objectives.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the migrant worker labour market in Southern Africa - provides a theoretical framework for economic analysis of demand determinants and supply relationships in an economy of surplus labour supply, discusses development policy considerations and forms part of a...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a simulation economic model of migrant worker labour supply in South Africa R, with particular reference to economic implications for the labour market in the countries of emigration (Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland) - constitutes part of a WEP research project on...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting an econometric model for economic forecasting of population, labour force, educational levels and employment in developing countries, as applied to Ecuador - describes the labour market models use in making projections of labour supply, labour demand,...