Bell, Trevor : Unemployment in South Africa

virtually all OECD countries began to rise in the late 1960sr
movement accelerated from 1974 on in all of them (except Japan), with a
further marked acceleration from about 1980' ) .
the
1) See also Beenstock (1983 : 125) which shows the unemployment rate in
OECD countries collectively reaching its lowest post-war level in
1966, thereafter rising steeply but for brief and small cyclical
decreases. In addition to these OECD statistics, there is evidence
for individual countries, and Davenport (1982 : 39), for instance,
reports for Canada Canada, "an upvard drift in the unemployment rate
particularly after 1967". In the table the South African unemployment
rates of direct relevance for our present purposes are those drawn
from Table 2 above. The Current Population Survey estimates are
included ae well, simply because of the interesting contraet which
they make, and they are touched on again later.