The World Bank's "Employing Workers" index: Findings and critiques - A review of recent evidence.
This note provides an update on the ongoing debate over the World Bank's Doing Business project with a particular focus on its "Employing Workers" index, which is intended to measure difficulty of hiring, rigidity of working hours and difficulty of firing. The authors review the findings of studies...
| Published in: | International Labour Review Vol. 147; no. 4; pp. 416 - 433 |
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Open Library of Humanities
2008
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