report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty. More generally, we find that both state and federal EZs appear to be endogenously selected based on prior changes in … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs …

notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High …

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …