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Employment and Skills in Southern African Exports
Dirk Ernst Van Seventen
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Paperback. Promoting exports is often an important policy option for small open economies like South Africa. It was certainly thought that trade would contribute to job creation. Yet there has been concern that trade has encouraged greater capital intensity. Num Pages: 36 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; KCFM; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 0. Weight in Grams: 125.
Promoting exports is often an important policy option for small open economies like South Africa. It was certainly thought that trade would contribute to job creation. Yet there has been concern that trade has encouraged greater capital intensity. This paper compares labour absorption that arises from trade and from the domestic market. It takes this further to consider employment created by export destination. A fuller understanding of employment implications is made possible by using a social accounting matrix to take into account both direct and indirect employment. This is the first in a planned series of papers to explore the ... Read more
Promoting exports is often an important policy option for small open economies like South Africa. It was certainly thought that trade would contribute to job creation. Yet there has been concern that trade has encouraged greater capital intensity. This paper compares labour absorption that arises from trade and from the domestic market. It takes this further to consider employment created by export destination. A fuller understanding of employment implications is made possible by using a social accounting matrix to take into account both direct and indirect employment. This is the first in a planned series of papers to explore the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
HSRC Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796921062
SKU
V9780796921062
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99-3
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