The Long Term Employment Implications of Privatization
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Contracting out
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Contracting out
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Author : Dudek & Company
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : County services
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Author : Rolph van der Hoeven
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221094524
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.
Author : Sunita Kikeri
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821341483
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.
Author : Mr.Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451848978
Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run, however, it can lead to job losses and wage cuts for workers and higher prices for consumers. This paper discusses these impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public sales and auctions can have more negative effects on workers but maximize the government’s revenue gains. Policymakers’ options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed.
Author : J. Kühl
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Labor market
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Author : Martin Feldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226241823
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computer network resources
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309170761
In the quest to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water and wastewater services, many communities in the United States are exploring the potential advantages of privatization of those services. Unlike other utility services, local governments have generally assumed responsibility for providing water services. Privatization of such services can include the outright sale of system assets, or various forms of public-private partnershipsâ€"from the simple provision of supplies and services, to private design construction and operation of treatment plants and distribution systems. Many factors are contributing to the growing interest in the privatization of water services. Higher operating costs, more stringent federal water quality and waste effluent standards, greater customer demands for quality and reliability, and an aging water delivery and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure are all challenging municipalities that may be short of funds or technical capabilities. For municipalities with limited capacities to meet these challenges, privatization can be a viable alternative. Privatization of Water Services evaluates the fiscal and policy implications of privatization, scenarios in which privatization works best, and the efficiencies that may be gained by contracting with private water utilities.
Author : Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
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