Browsing Research Publications by Subject "Economics"

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    • Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance 

      Dlomo, Z.; Jansen, A.; Moses, M.; Yu, Derek (UNISA Press, 2011)
      The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ...

    • Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa 

      Fondling, Jaydro; Murozvi, Simbarashe; Yu, Derek; Mtshali, Nothando (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This is the first South African study that analysed all three availablewaves of Statistics South Africa’s Volunteer Activities Survey data,which was linked to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey in the third quarter of the ...

    • Investigation of the youth informal entrepreneurship landscape in South Africa 

      Murozvi, Simbarashe; Adams, Charles; Yu, Derek (Unisa Press, 2022)
      The South African economy is characterised by high and continuously rising youth unemployment levels and rates. While countervailing interventions have been attempted in the formal sector, support for youth employment and ...