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Book Synopsis Labor Redundancies and Privatization by : Sunita Kikeri
Download or read book Labor Redundancies and Privatization written by Sunita Kikeri and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When state-owned enterprises preparing for privatization have very high levels of redundant workers and when social safety nets and redundancy provisions in labor laws are inadequate or lacking, the political and social implications of layoffs mean that the government should be involved in the design and funding of special programs to deal with unemployment and labor unrest. This note reviews the main elements of such programs severance and retirement benefits, retraining and redeployment support, employee share ownership schemes, and importantly, mechanisms to ensure labor consultation and participation. In many countries these programs need to go hand-in-hand with reforms to expand private labor markets: removing obstacles to job creation, ending restrictions on hiring and firing, and eliminating taxes that raise the cost of labor.
Book Synopsis Labor Redundancy, Retraining, and Outplacement During Privatization by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Labor Redundancy, Retraining, and Outplacement During Privatization written by Antonio Estache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brazil's Federal Railway was privatized, the team in charge of privatization made a significant effort to complement the incentive for voluntary reduction with an elaborate menu of training options. How did it work?
Book Synopsis Privatization and Labor by : Sunita Kikeri
Download or read book Privatization and Labor written by Sunita Kikeri and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its importance, labor is one of the least addressed issues in privatization. The lack of information on the employment impact of privatization has exacerbated the fears and concerns of governments and workers alike. This paper examines the effects of privatization on labor and analyzes the mechanisms that governments can use to minimize the political and social costs of labor restructuring in privatization, by drawing on the experience of mixed economies.
Book Synopsis State Ownership and Labor Redundancy by : Patrick Belser
Download or read book State Ownership and Labor Redundancy written by Patrick Belser and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To predict the number of workers who will lose their jobs if state-owned enterprises are privatized or restructured, several approaches have been taken: drawing on international experience, accepting estimates from current directors of state enterprises, and inferring the number of redundancies from ad hoc indicators of profitability, productivity, or labor cost. All three approaches may be irrelevant and inferior to systematically comparing employment levels across similar enterprises that differ in the share of capital owned by the state.
Book Synopsis State Ownership and Labor Redundancy by : Patrick Belser
Download or read book State Ownership and Labor Redundancy written by Patrick Belser and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To predict the number of workers who will lose their jobs if state-owned enterprises are privatized or restructured, several approaches have been taken: drawing on international experience, accepting estimates from current directors of state enterprises, and inferring the number of redundancies from ad hoc indicators of profitability, productivity, or labor cost. All three approaches may be irrelevant and inferior to systematically comparing employment levels across similar enterprises that differ in the share of capital owned by the state.Privatizing or restructuring state-owned enterprises may lead to massive layoffs, but the number of redundant workers is usually unknown beforehand. Belser and Rama estimate labor redundancy by comparing employment levels across enterprises with different degrees of state ownership.In their model, state enterprises are a hybrid between labor-managed enterprises and profit-maximizing enterprises, with the profit motive becoming less prominent as the state share of capital increases. This model leads to an employment equation that is estimated using an enterprise database from Vietnam.In this database, constructed especially for this paper, roughly a third of the enterprises are fully state-owned, a third are fully private, and a third are joint ventures between the state and the private sector. The employment equations control for sector activity, region, and the enterprise's age, among other variables.The results suggest that if the state share of capital were brought down to zero, roughly half of the workers in the corresponding enterprises would be redundant. This is more than 10 times the estimate by the current enterprise directors.The results also show a wide dispersion of redundancy across sectors of activity.There is only a weak correlation between estimated labor redundancy and 12 ad hoc indicators of profitability, productivity, and labor cost. But the correlation between most ad hoc indicators also is weak, suggesting that these indicators are not reliable tools for identifying the most overstaffed enterprises.This paper - a product of Public Service Delivery, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand labor issues in public sector reform. The study was supported by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project quot;Public Sector Downsizing, Phase IIquot; (RPO 683-67). It was also supported by the Vietnam Country Office, East Asia and Pacific Region.
Author :Rolph van der Hoeven Publisher :International Labour Organization ISBN 13 :9789221094524 Total Pages :210 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (945 download)
Book Synopsis Lessons from Privatization by : Rolph van der Hoeven
Download or read book Lessons from Privatization written by Rolph van der Hoeven and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the labor market consequences of privatization in developing countries (the Republic of Korea, India and Mexico) and transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Hungary) during the first half of the 1990s. Based on over 20 case studies in seven countries, it considers the effect of privatization on productivity and on the level and structure of employment. The evolving patterns of industrial relations in privatized firms and the subsequent changes in wages, remuneration systems and non-wage benefits are also examined.
Book Synopsis Labor Redundancy, Retraining, and Outplacement During Privatization by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Labor Redundancy, Retraining, and Outplacement During Privatization written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brazil' Federal Rail ...
Book Synopsis Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-owned Enterprises by : Jan Svejnar
Download or read book Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-owned Enterprises written by Jan Svejnar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The severity of labor redundancy has been underestimated because of difficulties in conceptualizing the issue and finding politically acceptable solutions. Schemes to reduce labor redundancy can decrease the wage bill significantly and allow fairly high compensation to the employees laid off yet still allow the government to recoup its costs in a relatively short time.
Book Synopsis Privatization and Labor by : Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Download or read book Privatization and Labor written by Marsha Pripstein Posusney and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the politics of economic restructuring programs and their social consequences, 11 case studies from transition and third world economies are presented by Posusney (international relations, Brown U.) and Cook (political science, Brown U.). Especially concerned with affects of privatization schemes on blue collar industrial and service workers, the papers are divided between examinations of the responses of unions and the welfare consequences of enterprise privatization and related schemes to transfer provision of social welfare from the state to the private sector. Case studies come from Poland, Egypt, South Asia, North Africa, China, Russia, and Hungary. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Labour and Social Dimensions of Privatization and Restructuring by :
Download or read book Labour and Social Dimensions of Privatization and Restructuring written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper assesses the extent, modalities and effects of stakeholders' participation and also examines the impact of privatization and restructuring on employment levels and employment conditions, the working conditions of staff in the privatized organizations and of those remaining in state enterprises, retraining, redeployment and compensation schemes.
Book Synopsis Privatization, Labour Law and Labour Relations by : Suzanne Nola
Download or read book Privatization, Labour Law and Labour Relations written by Suzanne Nola and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to identify the potential role of labour legislation and labour relations machinery in achieving a better balance, from both an economic and social point of view, in the process of change of ownership under privatization.
Book Synopsis Labor Issues in Infrastructure Reform by : Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility
Download or read book Labor Issues in Infrastructure Reform written by Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fears of job loss and changes in employment status have often led workers and unions to oppose privatization and to take actions that delay or block reforms. Many developing country governments have been reluctant to undertake reforms because of labor opposition and the political costs involved. Such difficulties are often compounded by concerns about the social impact of reforms, particularly in countries where social safety nets and labor markets are lacking. The objective of the Toolkit, which includes a CD-ROM, is to provide practical tools and information to help policy makers and practitioners deal with these sensitive issues. The Toolkit helps governments identify and select appropriate strategies and approaches, offers guidelines for design and implementation based on best practice and actual experience, and indicates the factors influencing the choice of strategy and options. The Toolkit is illustrated with examples, checklists, and templates that walk decision makers through best practice methodologies.
Book Synopsis Privatization and Labor by : Sunita Kikeri
Download or read book Privatization and Labor written by Sunita Kikeri and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its importance, labor is one of the least addressed issues in privatization. The lack of information on the employment impact of privatization has exacerbated the fears and concerns of governments and workers alike. This paper examines the effects of privatization on labor and analyzes the mechanisms that governments can use to minimize the political and social costs of labor restructuring in privatization, by drawing on the experience of mixed economies.
Book Synopsis Privatization and Public Employees by : Dudek & Company
Download or read book Privatization and Public Employees written by Dudek & Company and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study examined the issue of contracting out traditional government services and its effect on government employees. It found that local governments contract out for two principal reasons: to cut the cost of providing services and to employ specialized skills and resources unavailable within the government. Findings from a review of the privatization literature were that: (1) only about 5-10 percent of public employees affected by contracting out were laid off; (2) public assistance payments to laid-off workers were very low; (3) private contractors paid lower wages and offered lower fringe benefits; (4) contracting out was not inherently harmful to minorities or women; and (5) contracting may have a slightly positive impact on the number of available jobs. Interviews with local officials from 17 cities and counties generally confirmed these findings and indicated that very few workers were laid off as a result of contracting out and few cities had formal contracting out employment policies. Policy recommendations were as follows: (1) target new and expanded services for contracting out; (2) establish a "no layoff" policy; (3) reduce the government work force through attrition; (4) encourage government employees to form private companies to provide government services; (5) allow the city agency to compete in the bidding process; and (6) develop policies for aiding displaced public employees. (66 references) (YLB).
Book Synopsis Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization by :
Download or read book Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a national probability sample of Ukrainian households. Detailed worker characteristics are used to control for compositional differences and to assess types of observable "winners" and "losers" from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected. Winners from privatization tend to be higher-skilled employees of larger firms, but there is no discernable relationship with gender, education, or experience.
Book Synopsis Labor Redundancy in the Transport Sector by : Alice Galenson
Download or read book Labor Redundancy in the Transport Sector written by Alice Galenson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Privatisation and Labour Restructuring by : Gopal Ganesh
Download or read book Privatisation and Labour Restructuring written by Gopal Ganesh and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On privatisation and labour restructuring in India and Sri Lanka.
