In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have no unemployment insurance nor informal sector … unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find that the household formation response of the unemployed … is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an …

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 …

are made, chiefly by academics, about poverty and unemployment. Official statistics on poverty and unemployment enjoy … little favour among senior politicians and civil servants. 'Unofficial' poverty and unemployment statistics, by contrast, are …The major cause of poverty is unemployment. This paper looks at aspects of the way government responds to claims that …

While in many African countries open unemployment is largely confined to urban areas and thus overall rates are quite … low, in South Africa open unemployment rates hover around 30%, with rural unemployment rates being even higher than that …. This is despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system and little labour market regulation that …