This module provides guidance on why and how to evaluate the costs and benefits of labor restructuring programs and how to set up effective monitoring systems to track progress and learn from experience.
Financial Benefits-A Checklist
EVALUATING LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS
Constructing the Counterfactual Analysis
Assessing the Impact of Redeployment
Assessing the Effects on Workers' Welfare
Assessing Overall PPI Benefits
Box 7.1: Indicators for Cost-Benefit Analysis
Box 7.2: The Importance of Control Groups-A Hypothetical Example
Box 7.3: Example of a Redeployment Evaluation-PROBECAT, Mexico
Box 7.4: Possible Cost and Benefit Indicators for Redeployment Programs
Box 7.5: Impact of Downsizing on PPI Prices
Box 7.6: Monitoring and Evaluation Defined
Box 7.7: Severance and Redeployment: Some Monitoring Indicators
Table 7.1: Financial Analysis-Key Questions and Tools
Table 7.2: Checklist-Financial Costs of a Labor Program
Table 7.3: Checklist-Financial Benefits of a Labor Program
Table 7.4: Economic vs. Financial Costs and Benefits
Table 7.5: Turkey-How Workers Used Severance Compensation (percentage of workers)
Table 7.6: Preferred Employment Status of Redeployed Civil Servants-Ghana
Table 7.7: Assessing Labor Programs-A Checklist of Potential Effects on Different Stakeholders