Youth Unemployment Scenarios
eBook - ePub

Youth Unemployment Scenarios

South Africa in 2040

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Youth Unemployment Scenarios

South Africa in 2040

About this book

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its mass unemployment, and offering a variety of strategies to avoid an impending crisis in the country.

Utilizing scenario analysis rooted in complex systems theory while building on statistical and fi eld research, the author illustrates four possible future states of youth employment in South Africa in the year 2040. This includes the South African version of the Arab Spring, where young people riot or agitate for extreme political and social change because of a belief that access to education and jobs is only possible through social status or corruption (Spring), fair access to a high number of jobs supported by Chinese interventions (Summer), a technology- driven decline in the number of jobs where merit- based access for youth is granted (Fall), and the collapse of the economy, with the economy collapsing and youth becoming increasingly desperate (Winter). The author then presents five strategies to fight youth unemployment, including training of youth to start businesses, stimulating small- and medium- sized enterprises, and sending unemployed youth abroad for skills development and to where their labour is needed.

This book will be of interest to scholars of South African politics and economics, labour economics and youth studies, and readers with an interest in tackling youth unemployment independent of the country.

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Information

Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000737738
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Life of the unemployed youth across South Africa
  11. 2 Methodology: The path to building scenarios
  12. 3 Youth and work in South Africa
  13. 4 Insights into youth unemployment: The statistics
  14. 5 The 11 drivers of youth employment
  15. 6 Youth employment scenarios for South Africa in 2040
  16. 7 Charting a new path to youth employment
  17. 8 Winter is (not) coming
  18. Index