Labor Redundancy, Retraining, and Outplacement during Privatization : The Experience of Brazil's Federal Railway

One of the most complex challenges of infrastructure privatization is its impact on employment. Often (but not always) private operators' main approach to cost-cutting is labor reduction. Private operators cannot afford the low levels of labor productivity typical in public companies if they ar...

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Main Authors: Estache, Antonio, Schmitt de Azevedo, Jose Antonio, Sydenstricker, Evelyn
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21296