A universal concern in infrastructure reforms is the effect such reforms have on labor. State-owned infrastructure firms often employ more people than required for efficiency, and often under favorable terms and conditions of service, leading to lower labor productivity and higher labor costs than private employers would bear. Some reform, in particular those involving private participation in infrastructure (PPI), may thus prompt surplus labor and...
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Modules 2-7
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Privatization
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Kikeri,Sunita; Smulders,Olaf; Terry Green; Martin,Brendan Fitzgerald; Roberto Battista; Roger Usher.
Labor issues in infrastructure reform : a toolkit (Vol. 2 of 2) : Modules 2-7 (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/584111468762021856