However, these arrangements pose a problem for women, who are likely to have worked and contributed for fewer years and earned lower wages when working.
The participants viewed financial, medical and social supports provided by the government as earned and thus a component of individual responsibility for later life.
Our study participants felt entitlement was not a ' right ' but rather something earned for being productive members of society or being a ' good ' citizen.
As a result urban workers could purchase goods, though they were usually foreign made ; rural people, meanwhile, rarely earned enough to purchase more than food.#!