Vulnerability In Employment: Evidence from South Africa

Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morne Oosthuizen and Amy Thornton

Working Papers from University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract: This paper sets out to update the impression of vulnerability in the labour market, by examining how low pay and informality interact with each other, and with poverty. Throughout, we try to include comparative results from within the sub-Saharan Africa and Latin American regions. What becomes clear is that a job alone is not a solution to poverty in South Africa. And informality in South Africa plays an important role as a buffer to unemployment in contrast to the higher levels of voluntary informality in Latin America.

JEL-codes: I3 J31 J46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2016-11
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, November 2016, pages 1-36

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