This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes … analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative … the period, and so unemployment rates even among graduates increased over the period …

This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality …

In brief, the paper firstly summarises old and new theoretical and technical issues on measuring poverty, secondly … analyses poverty from different perspectives and highlights various research findings on poverty trends in South Africa and … stage, demonstrates why there is an ongoing debate in South Africa about poverty and 'second economy'. Clearly, the extent …

households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … themselves negatively affected by increasing inequality, poverty and unemployment …This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa. It is an introduction …

from Statistics South Africa to calculate inflation rates for expenditure deciles for the period 1998 to 2006. As a result …

consumption-based measures of income has shown that, depending on the data sources, household income poverty in South Africa … standard poverty measures are applied to our derived indices, we find that total household welfare increased between 1993 and …

, providing some descriptive statistics and analysis to highlight the nature and extent of the informal economy. Given the present …

of 1995 and the Labour Force Survey of September 2004. The paper has found that while the unemployment rate has risen … over the period, total employment has increased, bringing into question the notion of jobless growth. Unemployment, however …, Africans, females, the poorly educated and the young and, for many, represents a long-term problem. Disturbingly, unemployment …