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This study assesses the labour market consequences of privatization in developing countries (the Republic of Korea, India and Mexico), and transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Hungary) during the first half of the 1990s. Based on over 20 case studies in seven countries, the book considers the effect of privatization on productivity and on the level and structure of employment. The evolving patterns of industrial relations in privatized firms and the subsequent changes in wages, remuneration systems and non-wage benefits are also examined. This detailed and analyzed overview of the labour market consequences of privatization should improve an understanding of the circumstances under which it should be successful. It should also clarify some of the difficult choices to be made in order to prevent privatization becoming a zero-sum game, with some winners and many losers.

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Rolph van der Hoeven is manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on Globalization. Gyorgy Sziraczki works at the International Labor Office.

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