The Gender Implications of Public Sector Downsizing : The Reform Program of Vietnam
Using data from Vietnam, this article describes several types of analysis that can be conducted before launching a major downsizing operation to identify possible gender effects. It draws several conclusions about Vietnam s downsizing reforms. Firs...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/17591692/gender-implications-public-sector-downsizing-reform-program-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16418 |
| Summary: | Using data from Vietnam, this article
describes several types of analysis that can be conducted
before launching a major downsizing operation to identify
possible gender effects. It draws several conclusions about
Vietnam s downsizing reforms. First, although women s
prospects of obtaining salaried jobs following displacement
from state-owned enterprise worsened as a result of recent
reforms, they are likely to improve in the near future.
Second, reforms are associated with a sharp decline in the
gender gap in earnings, both in and outside the state
sector. Third, overstaffing is greatest in sectors in which
most employees are men, such as construction, mining, and
transportation; it is much less prevalent in sectors in
which women dominate the work force, such as footwear,
textiles, and garments. Fourth, training, and assistance
programs to help redundant workers reveal no evidence of
strong gender bias. Fifth, severance packages based on a
multiple of earnings are more favorable to men, whereas lump
sum packages favor women. |
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