Why are they not looking for employment? A South African Youth Perspective
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Keywords
Youth work-seeker; Unemployment; Youth Labour market; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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