- Title
- Labour immigration, per capita income growth and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa
- Creator
- Nyagweta, David Tinashe
- Subject
- Unemployment rate
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCom
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44531
- Identifier
- vital:38136
- Description
- Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has experienced considerable increase in immigration. The country’s immigrant population share relative to the total population stood at 2.4% in 1995 which soared to 7.6% in 2017. This increase has mostly been enticed by the highly competitive economic and political outlook of the rainbow nation in relation to other global developing nations. Unfortunately, reality of increased immigration particularly, labour-based immigration has spurred fierce debates which in many instances manifested into xenophobic violence. Pessimism amongst public, academic and political spheres continues to grow with detrimental economic strains of slow per capita income growth and high unemployment cited as immigration outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether labour-based immigration contributed to changes in per capita income growth and unemployment levels in South Africa. Using unemployment rate, labour immigration entrances and per capita income growth rate data from 1994-2017, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test was used to test for long run relationship together with the short run dynamic model. Evidence from the underlying results show that labour immigration has an insignificant causal effect on both per capita income growth and unemployment. Thus, contrary to pessimistic public and political sentiment, constrained income growth and increased unemployment are not attributed to high rates of labour immigration. Based on these findings policy makers should improve alignment of policies with regional and multinational blocs, constitutional obligations and economic goals to ensure sound immigration policies. Furthermore, communities should enable programs which aim to reduce tensions between immigrants and citizens whilst building towards inclusive development.
- Format
- xi, 96 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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