of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … unemployment rates in South Africa is -0.1, similar to that found in other countries, including the US and the UK. This is striking … because South Africa has a national unemployment rate of over 30%. We find that the wage curve elasticity persists over a much …

South Africa’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …