A decent living level for South Africa: A report on how possession of socially perceived necessities relates to income

DSL project partners co-hosted seminars to consider the necessary components for constructing a ‘Decent Living Level’ (DLL). This report attempts to relate incomes in South Africa to a measure of a decent living level. The work on which this report draws is an effort to begin to fill the gap of finding an empirically grounded measure of a decent living level or a decent wage.

This report considers the intersection of the promotion of a living wage and a national minimum wage. It is an effort to describe what an income of a certain level could mean for an individual or household.

A decent living level for South Africa: A report on how possession of socially perceived necessities relates to income. 2015 Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, Gemma Wright, Wanga Zembe-Makabile and Michell Mpike (SASPRI); Isobel Frye (SPII); Trenton Elsely (LRS)