Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast

By Geeta Kingdon, John Knight. 2004

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa (2005, background): “…responses have increasingly, and successfully, been applied in studies of unemployment (e.g. Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998; Frey and Stutzer 1999; Kingdon and Knight 2001; Blanchflower and Oswald 2004), the role of absolute and relative income (e.g. Clark and Oswald 1996; McBride 2001; Easterlin…”
Graduate Unemployment in the Face of Skills Shortages: A Labour Market Paradox (2008, unknown): “The nature and severity of the unemployment problem in South Africa is well documented (see for example Kingdon and Knight, 2000, Oosthuizen, 2005, Pauw and Edwards, 2005 and others).”
Understanding South Africa's economic puzzles* (2008, background): “Urban unemployment rate (1990s) Informal employment (as a share of non-agricultural employment) South Africa 29.3 18.9 Other sub-Saharan Africa 16.0 74.8 Latin America 8.1 56.9 Asia 5.3 63.0 Source: Charmes (2000) via Kingdon and Knight (2004).”
Rural Livelihoods in South Africa: Complexity, Vulnerability and Differentiation (2013, unknown): “Conversely, others suggest that pension income facilitates labour market engagement (Kingdon and Knight 2000; Keswell 2004).”
Economic Liberalization and Wage Inequality in the Presence of Labour Market Imperfection (2005, background): “Several authors, including Banerjee (1986) in case of India and Gandhi-Kingdon and Knight (2001) in case of South Africa, have noted that many activities in the an increase in the bargaining power, the unions bargain for a higher wage.11 The union power, denoted by U , is amenable to policy…”
Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa (2010, background): “Kingdon and Knight 2006). The South African Labour Force surveys make a special effort to capture informal employment, where respondents are given a battery of questions about different types of work that they may have done ”even for only one hour,” including unpaid work in a household business, far”
High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa (2012, background): “1For an extended discussion of small firms in developing countries, see Liedholm and Mead (1987, 1999). of any sort, informal or otherwise.”
Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa (2010, unknown): “Supporting this observation, Kingdon and Knight (2004) and Heinz and Posel (2008) show that unemployment in South Africa is involuntary and that informal work is preferred.”
Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “For example, Kingdon and Knight (2004) provide evidence from South Africa suggesting that participating in the informal economy requires entrepreneurs to overcome entry barriers, which many individuals would like to do but have been unable.”