| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 106 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
RAND Corporation monograph series ; MG1117-1 |
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Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG1117-1.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Methods, information sources, and data -- Employment in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq -- Fostering private-sector development: taking advantage of private investment and reforming the enabling environment -- Fostering private-sector development: outsourcing and privatization of government functions -- Skills and education of civil-service employees -- The civil-service compensation system and personnel policies. -- Strategies for voluntary civil-service separation -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Estimates of necessary job growth in the KRI -- Appendix B: Differences in language proficiency and educational attainment |
| Summary |
This monograph provides strategies to increase private-sector employment, including ways to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector, in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Prepared for and at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), this monograph is based on a variety of research methods and analyses. These include a review of the existing literature, analyses of survey data, analysis of Kurdistan regional and Iraqi national documents and laws, and a qualitative assessment of numerous conversations with government officials and private-sector employers. The KRG can develop its private sector by removing obstacles to starting or expanding a business, by identifying sectors for which conditions are particularly favorable for private-sector growth and supporting them, and by outsourcing and privatizing some functions that the KRG currently performs. However, private-sector growth does not guarantee that civil-service workers will leave for private-sector employment. Civil-service workers will need the qualifications necessary for private-sector jobs and will have to expect that the benefits of private-sector employment outweigh the benefits of civil-service employment. At the same time, as the KRG devises methods for encouraging civil-service workers to leave for the private sector, a key challenge will be to ensure that the most productive employees stay with the KRG in order to ensure the proper functioning of government |
| Notes |
"MG-1117-1-KRG"--Page 4 of cover |
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"Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government." |
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At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government, Ministry of Planning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (RAND, viewed June 30, 2014) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
880-01 Civil service -- Iraq -- Kurdistān
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880-01/(Q Economic development -- Iraq -- Kurdista⁺ѕn |
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Public service employment -- Iraq
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Manpower policy -- Iraq -- Kurdistān
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Economic development -- Iraq -- Kurdistān
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880-03 LAW -- Labor & Employment.
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880-03/(Q Manpower policy -- Iraq -- Kurdista⁺ѕn |
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Civil service
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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Manpower policy
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Public service employment
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| SUBJECT |
880-02 Kurdistān (Iraq) -- Economic policy
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880-02/(Q Kurdista⁺ѕn (Iraq) -- Economic policy |
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Iraq
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Iraq -- Kurdistān
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shatz, Howard J., author.
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Constant, Louay, author.
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Smith, Alexandria C., author.
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Kumar, Krishna B., author.
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Krull, Heather, author
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Usanov, Artur, author.
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Dogo, Harun, author.
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Martini, Jeffrey, author.
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Rand Corporation. Labor and Population, publisher
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Kurdistān (Iraq). Ḧikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan-ʻÊraq, sponsor.
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| ISBN |
9780833086334 |
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0833086332 |
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