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Title:Priorities for Urban Labor Market Research in Anglophone Africa
Author:House, William J.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Journal of Developing Areas
Volume:27
Issue:1
Period:October
Pages:49-67
Language:English
Geographic terms:English-speaking Africa
Africa
Subjects:employment
urban areas
economic policy
Economics and Trade
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
Bibliography/Research
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4192166
http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311646506
Abstract:This paper highlights some outstanding research issues that would help to fill the informational and data gaps that exist in our understanding of how urban labour markets function in anglophone Africa. During the 1980s, the consequences for African urban labour markets of the IMF's structural adjustment programmes (SAP) have been truly profound, and this paper examines a few of these outcomes. The key research issues relate, first, to modelling the urban labour market, where pressures from the supply side will intensify in the coming decades. It is necessary to identify how the differentiation apparent in the labour market, particularly within the informal sector, can be incorporated into a conceptual framework that extends beyond the segmented, dualistic approach, which seems to be no longer valid. Second, there is a need to understand better the processes by which new workers are absorbed into employment, particularly in view of the rapidly growing numbers of better-educated recruits. Third, for policy purposes, it is important to collect appropriate data to determine the kinds of education and vocational training that will promote productivity and incomes in the informal sector. Fourth, the relationship between household poverty status and labour market insertion of members should be investigated further. Notes, ref.
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