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Labor redundancy in the transport sector

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The issue of what to do with excess labor is critical to the success of any endeavour to improve the transport sector. Failure to reduce overstaffing leads to excessive wage bills. This exacerbates budget deficits and the losses of parastatal enterprises, which leads to cuts in investment or in the purchase of materials designed to reduce costs, further limiting labor productivity. Moreover, because transport employs so many people, labor redundancy in the sector affects not only the agencies or enterprises concerned but the public sector as a whole. This paper offers no blueprint for action, but categorizes the principal causes of redundancy, reviews the measures used to reduce overstaffing, and discusses the issues that have to be addressed.

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  • Galenson, Alice, 1989. "Labor redundancy in the transport sector," Policy Research Working Paper Series 158, The World Bank.
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    1. Nunberg,Barbara, 1988. "Public sector pay and employment reform : a review of World Bank experience," Policy Research Working Paper Series 113, The World Bank.
    2. Jones, David R, 1985. "Redundancy, Natural Turnover and the Paradox of Structural Change," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(1), pages 41-54, January.
    3. Tony Addison, 2002. "Structural adjustment," Chapters, in: Colin Kirkpatrick & Ron Clarke & Charles Polidano (ed.), Handbook on Development Policy and Management, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Harding, Alan S., 1990. "Restrictive labor practices in seaports," Policy Research Working Paper Series 514, The World Bank.
    2. Kranton, Rachel E., 1990. "Pricing, cost recovery, and production efficiency in transport : a critique," Policy Research Working Paper Series 445, The World Bank.

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