Understanding labour demand in South Africa and the importan...
Publication year: 2013

The aim of this paper is to clarify what is meant by labour demand in the Department of Higher Education and Training's (DHET) Labour Market Intellige...

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Using the Delphi Method to select key indicators for skills...
Publication year: 2013

This working paper explores how the Delphi method can be applied to selecting indicators for skills planning. The first part of the paper presents a b...

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Contextualising informality in the South African labour mark...
Publication year: 2013

This paper addresses the following: how do we begin to understand informality (and related concepts like unemployment) in context? This is vitally imp...

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Considering firm surveys: Key data and methodological requir...
Publication year: 2013

This document provides a broad definition of labour market information, concentrating on the type of labour market information required to support ski...

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Occupational shifts and shortages: Skills challenges facing...
Publication year: 2013

This report extends the analysis of labour demand trends to the 2001-2012 period. It consists of a descriptive analysis of skill-biased labour demand...

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South African Labour Market Microdata Scoping Study
Publication year: 2013

This study investigates sources of data available for analysis of the South African labour market. It is a data discovery exercise to determine what d...

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Towards a generic survey of labour market information in Sou...
Publication year: 2012

This paper investigates the current state of South African firm-level studies. It is evident that divergence in when studies were researched and writt...

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Understanding changing artisanal occupational milieus and id...
Publication year: 2012

The paper starts off by drawing from recent empirical research on artisanal skills production in South Africa that has highlighted key systemic blocka...

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