Proportionate income differentials: a long walk to social justice. A case study on the Entgeltrahmenabkommen (ERA) Baden-Wuerttemberg, a general agreement on pay grades, that seeks to achieve pay equity in this region of the German metal and electrical industry and a critical evaluation of how this model can assist in the implementation of section 27 of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) of South Africa

Vertical income differentials between occupational levels in South Africa are among the highest in the world. Under apartheid skilled work performed predominantly by white employees was artificially overvalued, while unskilled work performed predominantly by black employees was systematically underv...

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