tailieunhanh - Employment and Skills in South African Exports

Promoting exports is often an important 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 absorbtion 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 social accounting matrix to take into account both direct and indirect employment | Employment and skills in South African exports Dirk Ernst van Seventer Free download from Free download from Employment and Economic Policy Research Programme Occasional Paper 2 Series Editor Miriam Altman Executive Director Employment and Economic Policy Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa 2006 Human Sciences Research Council First published 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic mechanical or other means including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. ISSN 1814-375X ISBN 0-7969-2106 7 Cover by Jenny Young Typesetting and print management by Compress Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver Marketing and Distribution PO Box 30370 Tokai Cape Town 7966 South Africa. Tel 27 21-701-4477 Fax 27 21-701-7302 email booksales@ Distributed worldwide except Africa by Independent Publishers Group 814 North Franklin Street Chicago IL 60610 USA. To order call toll-free 1-800-888-4741 All other inquiries Tel 1 312-337-0747 Fax 1 312-337-5985 email Frontdesk@ Preface The Employment and Economic Policy Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council publishes this Occasional Paper series. The series is designed to contribute to knowledge and stimulate debate on employment and unemployment dynamics. We invite comments and responses from readers. Free download from .