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Real wages and collective

November 20, 2021November 19, 2019 by Trenton Elsley

Real wages are not easy to define, but are sometimes linked to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). However, in the case of South Africa and because of apartheid, real wages should be linked to social protection, social benefits and the social wage, writes Trenton Elsley.

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