Additional Material
Belser, Patrick, and Martin Rama. 2001. "State Ownership and Labor Redundancy: Estimates Based on Enterprise-Level Data from Vietnam." Policy Research Paper 2599. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
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Birdsall, Nancy, and John Nellis. 2002. "Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization." Working Paper 6. Center for Global Development. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
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Chen, Yi, and Ishac Diwan. 2000. "When the Bureaucrats Move Out of Business: A Cost-Benefit Assessment of Labor Retrenchment in China." Policy Research Working Paper 235. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
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PPIAF Port Reform Toolkit. Module 7 (Labor Issues).
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Rama, Martin. 2001. "The Gender Implications of Public Sector Downsizing: The Reform Program of Vietnam." Policy Research Working Paper 2573. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
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Web SitesILO: http://www.ilo.org/.
(Site offers a collection of papers on privatization and restructuring that can be downloaded at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employ ment/ent/papers/privat/pub.htm.)
PPIAF: http://www.ppiaf.org/.
(Site provides information on other PPIAF resources and Toolkits.)
PSIRU (Public Services International Research Unit): http://www.psiru.org/.
(The site publishes research on the impact of privatization on workers and trade unions.)
Rapid Response Unit: http://rru.worldbank.org/.
(This site is a gateway to a range of information on infrastructure, privatization, and private sector development policies.)
Other Materials and SourcesBaker, J. L. 1999. Evaluating the Poverty Impact of Projects: A Handbook for Practitioners. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
Corradetti, Susana. 1999. The Impact of Privatization of Public Sector Enterprises on Labour Relations and Conditions of Work in the Air and Land (Rail) Transport Sector. Geneva: International Labour Office. Available at http://www.ilo.org/.
de Luca, Loretta, ed. 1998a. Labour and Social Dimensions of Privatization and Restructuring– Public Utilities: Water, Gas, Electricity. Part I: Africa/Asia-Pacific Region. Geneva: International Labour Office (ILO web site: http://www.ilo.org/).
——ed. 1998b. Labour and Social Dimensions of Privatization and Restructuring–Public Utilities: Water, Gas, Electricity. Part II: Europe and Latin America. Geneva: International Labour Office (ILO web site: http://www.ilo.org/).
Evans-Klock, Christine, and Alexander Samorodov. 1998. "Worker Displacement: Public Policy and Labour Management Initiatives in Selected OECD Countries." Employment and Training Paper 24. Geneva: International Labour Office. Available from http://www.ilo.org/.
Fallick, Bruce C. 1996. "A Review of the Recent Empirical Literature on Displaced Workers." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 50 (1):5–16.
Galal, Ahmed, Leroy Jones, Pankaj Tandon, and Ingo Vogelsand. 1994. Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises. Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press. (Main volume is out of print; summary volume is still available from World Bank Publications, http://www.worldbank.org/.).
ILO (International Labour Organisation). 2002. "Report for Discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Employment, Employability and Equal Opportunities in the Postal and Telecommunications Services." Geneva: International Labour Office. Available from http://www.ilo.org/.
Marges, Kees. 1999. "Privatisation of Seaports As a Challenge for Trade Unions." London: International Transport Workers' Federation. Available at http://www.itf.org.uk/.
Van der Hoeven, Rolph, and Gyorgy Sziraczki. 1997. Lessons from Privatization. Labour Issues in Developing and Transitional Countries. Geneva: International Labour Office.