Migration Shocks: Integrating Lesotho’s Retrenched Migrant Miners |
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Authors: | Samuel N.‐A. Mensah Vannie Naidoo |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, University of the Free State at Phuthaditjhaba;2. School of Business, University of KwaZulu Natal at Durban |
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Abstract: | This paper finds that the decline in the numbers of Basotho 1 migrant mine workers since the 1990s was not market induced but rather a result of political and policy changes in South Africa. As a result of these changes, household income throughout rural Lesotho dropped significantly. As current migrant households generally do not have skilled workers or operate family businesses, the paper makes a case for training in skills and entrepreneurship as a means of utilizing Lesotho’s comparative advantages to generate domestic employment and absorb retrenched and prospective migrant mine workers. |
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Keywords: | F22 F36 J61 |
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