infrastructure. While unemployment and enforced idleness" persist, existing time-use survey data reveal that people around the …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …

KwaZulu Natal provinces, of the effectiveness of public works programmes in solving the problems of unemployment and poverty … beneficiaries return to unemployment, and their household incomes drop. The permanent,part-time, employment model implemented in … KwaZulu Natal, in which beneficiaries are selected by their communities on grounds of poverty, is more effective as a means of …

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 …