implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

Raising South Africa’s low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions—including collective bargaining and employment …

world, it was not spared from the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis. The economy has not recovered and employment … in South Africa has not yet returned to its pre-crisis levels. Overall inequality has not declined, and median wages seem …