towards_a_youth_employment_strategy_for_south_africa Youth unemployment poses a formidable policy challenge for South...
Development Planning Division Working Paper Series
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towards_a_youth_employment_strategy_for_south_africa
Youth unemployment poses a formidable policy challenge for South Africa. The unemployment rate of 25% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (Stats SA, 2011) is among the highest in the world. Significantly, unemployment is concentrated in the 14–35 age cohort, which accounted for 72% of the unemployed in 2010. Consequently, the country’s unemployment crisis is seen as a youth unemployment crisis in particular. South Africa’s growth trajectory in the 16 years since attaining democracy has not absorbed labour at the required scale, and the lack of access to the labour market and wage income has driven up poverty and inequality, despite a significant rollout of social grants and basic services
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