Public Sector Pay and Adjustment: Lessons from Five Countries

by Christopher Colclough

Overview

Changes to levels of earnings in the public and private sectors have a critical role in the adjustment process. Case studies of Singapore, Korea, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Argentina show that in those countries which adjusted unsuccessfully real earnings declined sharply, often with a further negative impact on output. The governments of the more succes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134741687
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/1997
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Christopher Colclough

Table of Contents

Figures and tables, Preface, 1 PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY AND ADJUSTMENT: THEORY, POLICIES AND OUTCOMES, 2 ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND FLEXIBLE CIVIL SERVICE PAY IN SINGAPORE, 3 WAGE POLICY AND INTER-SECTORAL PAY DIFFERENTIALS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 1975–91, 4 ECONOMIC STAGNATION AND EARNINGS DECLINE IN ZAMBIA, 1975, 5 PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY AND ADJUSTMENT IN ZIMBABWE, 6 STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY IN ARGENTINA, 1975–91, Index