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Title:How much African unemployment?
Author:Hawkins, A.M.
Year:1972
Periodical:Rhodesian Journal of Economics
Volume:6
Issue:3
Pages:21-33
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:employment
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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is 1. to examine more closely the concept of the economically inactive African population and 2. to suggest that a pervasive weakness of much of the discussion of African employment in Rhodesia is that it is conducted in an economic vacuum. This illuatrated in the following sections: The statistical foundations - The economically inactive population - Unemployment and under-employment - The dethronement of GNP - Labour inputs and economic growth - Efficiency of the labour market - Summary and conclusions. Notes and ref.
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