Research Catalog

Title

Public sector pay and adjustment : lessons from five countries / edited by Christopher Colclough.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Colclough, Christopher.

Description

xii, 164 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume describes and analyses the effects of structural adjustment upon public-sector pay, based on the experience of a number of countries: Singapore, Republic of Korea, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Argentina. This selection of cases provides a variety of experience as regards paths and stages of economic and social development, the application of adjustment policies and the role of the public service in these processes. The evidence presented in this volume shows that, in public sectors of unsuccessful adjusting countries, productivity was negatively affectedby severe market-determined declines in pay. By contrast, the successful adjuste rs adopted an interventionist approach to the labour market, in which pay was a strategic target for government policy. Thus the need to use careful strategic interventions, rather than entirely market-determined approaches to the labour market, may be one of the major lessons of East Asian economic success.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in development economics, 1359-7884 ; no. 8

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in development economics ; 1359-7884.

Subject

• Geschichte 1975-1991
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Developing countries > Case studies
• Employees > Salaries, etc
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Öffentlicher Dienst
• Einkommen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Ambtenaren
• Salarissen
• Ajustement structurel > Pays en voie de développement > Cas, Études de
• Fonctionnaires > Pays en voie de développement > Cas, Études de
• Developing countries > Officials and employees > Salaries, etc. > Case studies
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Note

• "A study prepared for the International Labour Office".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Public-Sector Pay and Adjustment: Theory, Policies and Outcomes / Christopher Colclough -- 2. Economic Restructuring and Flexible Civil Service Pay in Singapore / David C. E. Chew -- 3. Wage Policy and Inter-Sectorial Pay Differentials in the Republic of Korea, 1975-91 / Young-bum Park -- 4. Economic Stagnation and Earnings Decline in Zambia, 1975-91 / Christopher Colclough -- 5. Public-Sector Pay and Adjustment in Zimbabwe / Mkhululi Ncube -- 6. Structural Adjustment and Public-Sector Pay in Argentina, 1975-91 / Oscar Cetrangolo.

ISBN

• 0415153387
• 9780415153386

LCCN

96022701

OCLC

• ocm34710910
• 34710910
• SCSB-2107716

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library