SOUTH AfricaEPIDURAL analgesiaHOSPITALSLABOR (Obstetrics)Background: A 2012 audit on labour epidural analgesia rates in Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) revealed that only 2.2% of labouringparturients received epidural analgesia. This unacceptably low number necessitated a dedicated epidural service that was...
1. South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world at 42.6% (Stats SA, 2024). The unemployment rate for women is significantly higher at 46.1% against 39.5% for men. There is al...
The economics of migration and labour mobility has largely been discussed in the context of efficiency. Knowledge of alternative wage rates and job options permits workers to constantly assess the opportunity cost of their present employment. When constraining factors such product demand, labour productiv...
The social and economic impact of ageing populations. Falling birth rates and increased life expectancy have brought developed countries face to face with the reality of an increasingly ageing populations. Lon... K Toomel - 《Habitat Debate》 被引量: 1发表: 2001年 ...
This places them at higher risk of high rates of decline. The positive relationship between language speakers and language transmission is observed among all languages. If the proportion of the population that speaks the language falls, language transmission is less likely to occur. Language survival...
Figures 2 and 3 depict the female labour force participation rates in countries in South Asia and those in Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding high-income countries).[1] Figure 2: Female labour force participation in the South Asian countries (2000–2019). Source: Author’s compilation...
Recent research shows that real wages in Africa during the 1990s may have been more downwardly flexible than previously thought and have been surprisingly responsive to unemployment rates, yet large wage differentials between formal and informal sector firms remain. This third sense of the term '...
Child Activities in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: a Comparative Analysis While South Asia has the largest number of working children, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence of child labour. Child work participation rates are 41 per cent in Africa as compared with 21 per cent in Asia...
El-Hamidi, F., and Wahba, J. 2004.Why does the MENA region have such high unemployment rates?(mimeo). Google Scholar El-Hamidi, F., and Wahba, J. 2005. The effects of structural adjustment on youth unemployment in Egypt. 12th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum, 19–21 De...
The situation differs in South Africa. Graduate unemployment rates are low owing to the high demand for skilled labour. However, certain groups of graduates continue to struggle to find employment. While previous research has described which graduates are more vulnerable to unemployment, few studies ...