Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-owned Enterprises


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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.




Restrictive Labor Practices in Seaports


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Restrictive practices may prevent developing country seaports from benefiting from investments in containerization and bulk handling. Port loan appraisals should assess the changes needed in labor arrangements and organization-- and estimate compensation payments needed for displaced workers.




Recent Developments in Inland Transport


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Reviews trends in inland transport since the previous session in 1985. Gives information supplied by 42 governments on the effect given to conclusions and resolutions adopted at previous sessions, and includes steps taken by the ILO to meet the requests of previous meetings.




State Ownership and Labor Redundancy


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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.




Evaluation and Development


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This study illustrates the social and political principal that institutions matter. It explores not only how to get institutions to work efficiently, but also how to assess the proper relationship between institutions and development challenges through evaluative techniques.













Technological Change from Inside


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