Youth Unemployment Scenarios : South Africa in 2040

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

Author: Maximilian Matschke

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Publication Date: May 27, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1032029668

ISBN-13: 9781032029665