The World Bank's Doing Business survey seeks to measure and compare the costs to business of various types of regulation, including labour regulation. As such it is an important driver of labour market "reform" globally and in South Africa. It may also be encouraging a tendency of different systems of regulation to converge.
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Benjamin, P., Theron, J. 2007-11. Costing, Comparing and Competing: Developing an Approach to the Benchmarking of Labour Market Regulation. Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 07/131. University of Cape Town.
Benjamin, P., & Theron, J. (2007). Costing, Comparing and Competing: Developing an Approach to the Benchmarking of Labour Market Regulation (Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 07/131). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7278
Benjamin, Paul, and Jan Theron Costing, Comparing and Competing: Developing an Approach to the Benchmarking of Labour Market Regulation. Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 07/131. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7278
Benjamin P, Theron J. Costing, Comparing and Competing: Developing an Approach to the Benchmarking of Labour Market Regulation. 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7278
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