Job satisfaction and employment equity in South Africa

Hinks, Timothy

Abstract

This paper is the first to estimate job satisfaction equations in post-Apartheid South Africa. Absolute earnings contribute to greater job satisfaction. Racial group is also an important predictor of job satisfaction, but, when interacted with a proxy for affirmative action legislation, it is found that black job satisfaction is positively correlated with this legislation whereas coloured and to a lesser extent white job satisfaction is diminished. © The author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email:[e-mail].

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 8, 2009
• Deposit Date: Nov 15, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 15, 2016
• Journal: Journal of African Economies
• Print ISSN: 0963-8024
• Electronic ISSN: 1464-3723
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 237-255
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejp019
• Keywords: job satisfaction, employment equity, ordered probit, South Africa
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/980803
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejp019
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of African Economies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version "Hinks, Timothy (2010) Job satisfaction and employment equity in South Africa. Journal of African Economies, 19 (2). pp. 237-255" is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejp019.
• Contract Date: Nov 15, 2016