Unemployment as a social - welfare problem in urban Zaire

The unemployment problem in Zaire, like that of so many African countries, is essentially urban.

McCabe, James · 1970

Abstract

There is a labor shortage in agriculture and a high urban open unemployment rate. Zaire has 2 important characteristics: a form of non-wage employment, and individual sharing units which extend in size well beyond the family. The size distribution of total income for Kinshasa is compared with that of cash wage income and the economic role of women is discussed. It is shown that households with high open unemployment rates tend to cluster with households with low open unemployment rates.

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