ABSTRACT
This conference paper is a summary of a longer, quantitative study on the Zimbabwe labour market (Knight 1996).1 That, in turn, is part of a broader project entitled Economic Policies and Outcomes in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa which Carolyn Jenkins and I have been conducting.2 The motivation for the research was the realisation that the new South African government faced high expectations and political forces similar to those faced by the new Zimbabwe government when it came to power in 1980. The question that we wished to answer was: can South Africa draw helpful lessons from Zimbabwe’s experience?
