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Studies of selected priority sectors in the South African labour market: A proposed research programme


Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2012

Corporate author/s:

Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP)

Person/s author/s:

Oosthuizen, Morne; Bhorat, Haroon

Output-type:

working paper

Format:

pdf

The type of economic growth experienced by South Africa since the 1970s and well beyond 1994, has had a fundamental impact on the nature of employment movements at the sectoral and occupational level. In turn, this pattern of employment has been crucial in inadvertently defining and characterising the returns to households and individuals on the basis of their human capital attributes. Ultimately, the nature of sectoral and occupational labour demand trends, given South Africa's economic growth path, have defined much of the debate around skills shortages, high levels of unemployment and the need for a more equitably growth path. It is in this nexus between the nature of economic growth and the role of skills in this process, that this proposed research programme is located.

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