Higher education and development has not been a priority of global policy or research
funding in recent decades. Yet, since the millennium, Southern governments have become …

The concept of'scarce skills' features prominently in South Africa's national development
discourse. Over the past decade, the'scarce skills' concept has been used to frame debate …

11.1 Background On a number of indicators and measures, South Africa's post-apartheid
performance has been both a significant improvement on the past, as well as representing a …

Human development in various forms is central to addressing South Africa's socioeconomic
challenges and building an inclusive society. In the earlier phases of the democratic era in …

The level of unemployment in South Africa has long been a humbling statistic. Over the past
20 years the unemployment rate has not dipped below 20 per cent and stands at 25 per cent …

The paper contributes by proposing an analytical approach that allows for the identification
of patterns of participation in education and training and the labour market, through …

With the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the newly elected government
inherited an economic system of low growth, high government debt, mass unemployment …

The introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in January 2019 was a significant
policy intervention intended to address wage inequality and protect some of the most …

Although the temporary employment services (TES) or labour broker sector has been
growing in recent decades, and there has been much heated public debate on whether the …

Very little work has been done on the substitutability of capital and labour at the firm level in
South Africa. This paper updates Behar (2010), the first South African paper to examine this …