Revisiting informal employment and segmentation in the south African labour market

South African Journal of Economics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-44

  Heintz, James ^a,b   Posel, Dorrit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Informal employment; Segmentation; South African labour market

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MOBILITY; SEGMENTATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 42649091141     PISSN: 00382280     EISSN: 18136982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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