State ownership and labor redundancy
Subtitle: estimates based on enterprise-level data from Vietnam
By: Patrick Belser, Martín Rama.
Contributors: Rama, Martín, 1956-; World Bank. Development Research Group. Public Service Delivery.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2599; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2599.
Publisher: World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Service Delivery
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Privatization -- Vietnam -- Econometric models.; Corporations, Government -- Officials and employees -- Dismissal of -- Vietnam -- Econometric models.; Employees -- Dismissal of -- Vietnam -- Econometric models.; International trade -- Econometric models.
Genres: Econometric models.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. (p. 30-31).
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