TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing labour market conditions in South Africa
T2 - A sectoral analysis of the period 1970-1997
AU - Fedderke, J. W.
AU - Mariotti, Martine
PY - 2002/11
Y1 - 2002/11
N2 - EMPLOYMENT CREATION in the South African labour market has been less than healthy for some period of time. Understanding conditions within South African labour markets is crucial to developing a strategy designed to improve employment creation in the future. The present paper is to be understood as a preliminary study of the determinants of labour demand within the South African economy.1 The main focus of the present paper is not to present estimation results, nor to provide a comprehensive explanation for the incidence of certain features, but to review economic sectoral panel data on labour market conditions in South Africa. Given the problems frequently encountered with respect to South African labour data, it is useful to undertake preliminary exploratory data analysis, before a more sophisticated estimation is attempted. In the discussion that follows we examine employment trends, real labour remuneration trends, and labour productivity trends. On the basis of this description we extend the investigation to a brief preliminary econometric examination of the likely forms of interaction between employment, real labour renumeration, and labour productivity.
AB - EMPLOYMENT CREATION in the South African labour market has been less than healthy for some period of time. Understanding conditions within South African labour markets is crucial to developing a strategy designed to improve employment creation in the future. The present paper is to be understood as a preliminary study of the determinants of labour demand within the South African economy.1 The main focus of the present paper is not to present estimation results, nor to provide a comprehensive explanation for the incidence of certain features, but to review economic sectoral panel data on labour market conditions in South Africa. Given the problems frequently encountered with respect to South African labour data, it is useful to undertake preliminary exploratory data analysis, before a more sophisticated estimation is attempted. In the discussion that follows we examine employment trends, real labour remuneration trends, and labour productivity trends. On the basis of this description we extend the investigation to a brief preliminary econometric examination of the likely forms of interaction between employment, real labour renumeration, and labour productivity.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2002.tb00047.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2002.tb00047.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036853428
SN - 0038-2280
VL - 70
SP - 830
EP - 864
JO - South African Journal of Economics
JF - South African Journal of Economics
IS - 5
ER -