More than wages: the gap between expectations and experience

SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Mncwango
KEYWORDS: WAGE INEQUALITY, WAGES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-july-to-sept-2016/more-than-wages
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9378
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10098
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10098

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Abstract

In the context of constrained economic growth and a general scarcity of jobs, South Africans consider job security and non-financial characteristics just as important in a job as the economic benefits, writes Bongiwe Mncwango.