State ownership and labor redundancy : estimates based on enterprise-level data from Vietnam / Patrick Belser, Martín Rama

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...

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Auteurs principaux:Belser, Patrick
Collectivités auteurs:World Bank
Autres auteurs:Rama, Martín, 1956-
Format: Online-Resource
Langue:English
Publié:Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Service Delivery, 2001
Collection:Policy research working paper
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Résumé: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
Description:"May 2001. - Includes bibliographical references. (p. 30-31). - Title from title screen as viewed on Sept. 11, 2002
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2001]
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Description matérielle:1 Online-Ressource (48 Seiten)