Publisher's Synopsis
This study comprises five case studies from the ILO 1989 World Labour Report, which examines the employment conditions of public service employees. These case studies were prepared by scholars in developing countries ? Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Venezuela. In order to compare the case study results with information from other developing countries, Derek Robinson from Magdalen College, Oxford, has written an overview on government employment and pay. The main message of the studies is that governments were obliged to reduce expenditure on the wage bill, because they had to face up to rapidly increasing debt payments. They generally chose to maintain public service employment as much as possible, while reducing employment in (or privatising) public enterprises. The book recommends greater use of joint consultation and collective bargaining to determine the employment conditions of public service.
