Affiliation:
1. Nelson Mandela University , Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, Department of Economics , University Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth, 6019 , South Africa
Abstract
Abstract
Research background: High unemployment rates are one of the greatest economic challenges facing the post-apartheid South African government over the past two decades and this problem has become more worrisome in the post-global financial crisis period.
Purpose: Our study examines the determinants of unemployment for the South African economy in the post-crisis period over a quarterly frequency period of 2009:Q1 to 2018:Q4. The determinants are examined for four classes of unemployment rates (total, male, female and youth) and we further partition possible unemployment determinants into fiscal, monetary and macroeconomic variables.
Research methodology: We employ the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) models.
Results: We find income tax, repo rates, economic growth, trade, investment, household debt and savings to be significant determinants of unemployment in the post-crisis South African economy and yet we note discrepancies of the significance of these determinants amongst different unemployment categories.
Novelty: No study has examined the determinants of unemployment in South Africa in the post-financial crisis era.
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