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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 Blacks |
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. |