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Santo Domingo.– The World Bank rates the Dominican Republic as the country with the lowest labor flexibility in Latin America and the Caribbean, which makes the country rank among the worst in the world.
According to the 2008 "Doing Business" report, the Dominican Republic ranks 32nd on the employment rigidity scale, which rates countries having into account difficulty of hiring, rigidity of hours and difficulty of firing.
The report also places the Dominican Republic as the highest non-wage labor costs (% of salary) in the region, equivalent to 144% of the salary, and as one of the worst rates for firing costs, equivalent to 88 weeks of wages.
Despite the improvements achieved last year, the Dominican Republic is ranked fourth worst in the region in terms of the general business climate, the countries scoring less being Guyana, Suriname and Haiti.
On the other hand, the report highlight some of the country´s advances in the business area like the reduction of the number of days (from 72 days to 22 days) that it takes to start a business, as well as the time it takes (from 107 days to 60 days) to register property in the Dominican Republic.
For more information go to: www.doingbusiness.org/Documents/CountryProfiles/DOM.pdf
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From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Now you guys should demand an investigation into the source of the story, it sounds to me like one of those negative josean points of view.
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From: Dominican Republic
Given the abusive history of the owners of all types of businesses here, the workers need some protection. The lengths to which the current labor code protects the workers however, is excessive. This code has been in effect forever and needs to be reviewed and revised to bring us in line with the rest of the world.
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Written by: Euromax 
, 21 Jan 2008 2:47 PM
, 21 Jan 2008 2:47 PMFrom: Dominican Republic, Bonao, provincia M.N
yes its true, i live in DR, dont give me all that exageration you negative people, this topic is like a theory with no facts :b
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From: United States
I'm Software Developer that I completed my carreer in the DR, in a few words I had to flee the country in order to find a Job that had to do with what studied and have decent income to cover my expenses. So my experience with the Job hunting in DR it doesn't have to do with what you know or your capabilities are if you don't know the right people. I may had bad luck, but my God at least in USA I can live of what I like to do.
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From: Dominican Republic, NATIONAL DISTRICT
I RECENTLY CAME FROM JERSEY USA, AND I LOOK AT LIKE IT´S NOT WHERE U AT IS WHO YOU KNOW. BASICALLY LIFE IS LIKE THAT. I MEAN I FOUND A DECENT JOB BUT IT WAS THROUGH TIES AND POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS THAT I WAS BLESSED LIKE THAT.
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From: United States
Hey, Ginger you are killing my eyes with those upper cases, lol. I simply want to reiterate that the Dominican Job market is just another tool to exclude certain people from gaining financial parity. It is clear that the country is not producing jobs at the rate necessary to employ the people who are looking for jobs. But the real underlining here is the fact that the system is not based on merits or skills, but on your last name, physical apperance and if your relative or good friend is powerful. The majority of the country which is poor and dark skinned, and have unknown last names to the establishment and do not look like the sacret physical apperance much loved and venerated by Dominicans have no chance right from the unset. In other words, this translate into a group of the population that is disenfranchised and knows that their opportunities are limited, therefore, giving them no interest in getting an education. There are some people here that will outright, cont..
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From: United States
call these people lazy and people with no vision on the future. It is a real problem with our society and the quest to change who we are. I often bring travelers checks with me to DR, and I have seen the type of people that holds those positions in the Banking industry. Not once have I ever encountered a person that reflects the main stream society in supervisory positions in Banks and other financial institution. Even in car dealerships, like Land Rover and Jaguar you will see this patterns, at least for the ones I visited in Santiago. It is troubling that a Black and mixed nation is so heavely mastered by a small minority.
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From: United States
You know what dagtan, I guess Dominicans are emulating the Europeans. Yet they don't know that most of Europeans or Americans are actually white as opposed to being colored. O well, its the ignorance from colonial times. What the master has put in the mind of its slaves. At the end of the day, will this ever change? That's the question we must ask ourselves.
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From: United States
Anonymous, this condition hunts us even when we migrate. As I have stated before Dominicans have a difficult time adjusting to their new skin color when they arrive here in the U.S. I worked closely with a local college and we researched the effects of the rather confusing color rating in Dominican sensus data. As you know, we are the only nation that has a skin color such as "trigueno", I do not know were a trigueno falls within the frame of reference of a Dominican. I guess that this person is black, but not that black, I know it is confusing. So, this perosn is made belive that they are not black, but trigueno, now the next level in the frame of reference is the mulato and then the mestizo and finally white. Now stay with me on this part, for sensus purposes most of these people will not be counted as black, nor white, but they are closer to white than trigueno, since they are not that dark. Upon arrival in the U.S. where the American frame of reference towards color, cont...
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From: United States
of skin is rather simplistic and practical, all of the bottom three on the Domincan frame of reference will fall under the Black rating. The reason is that in the U.S. you have three colors of skin, white = anglo decent, western european, Black = people of african decent not white, yellow = asian, with exception of middle eastern and indian and south wetern island. The U.S. hs gone through great lenghts to classified subgroups under hispanics - mexican - white - black and others. So think where all these Dominicans check mark, on the hispanic/white, but when they are in the streets or they go to the doctor or school they are label as hispanic or black hispanic. A lot of Dominicans are struggling with factor in the U.S. and at times their own identity is put in jeopardy due to them questionig the system and thinking that the system is simply putting them down. This inturns affects their affection to the U.S. resulting in then clinging to the land they left behind, which, cont..
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From: United States
in turns limit their sucess here. Remember that the Irish, Italians, Greeks and Jews made it in part because they knew there was no going back and they either have to make here or make here, that is it.
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From: United States
Hey dagdan I agree with you on your first comment, the opportunities in general in the DR are very close to none, for you to get a decent job you really don't have to worry on how skilled and experinced you are, but how good are your contacts, otherwise you're f@%$ed!!!
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From: United States
AMEN, Icabrera, I am sure that everyone one of us have had a family member in this situation at one time or another. Here in the U.S. we all complaint about the glass ceiling and how little opportunities there are available to us in managerial and vp, ceo, coo and others key position within a company. But in DR, the ceiling is not made of glass that at least it is almost hidden to eyes, but instead it is made of steel, you can defenitely see it and understand that if you are not connected, have a known last name and look the desired way, then you are as you said f%%$%ed
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From: Spain
YEA
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From: United States, Somewhere in the World
how sad that so many people are going hungry and dying without anyone that cares about them, just so sad, i guess all these high class owners of the island just want to own it for themselves. even the presidents of those countries they only think about what they can pocket, its so unconsiderably miserable paying workers the equivalant of 50 to 60 us dollars a week to survive, wow what a life, with all this that i am hearing lately i don't know if i want to live there too long, my fiancee is dominican and i'm scheduled to pair up with him in april, this is frightening, especially for me where i am a nurse here and make good money here, i know i won't be a nurse up there and probably not be able to find any work, i can understand why people their have lost faith.
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From: United States
gatita, if you are an American Anglo national, then you'll find work, because people will be kissing your ass over there. They venerate Americans in DR, they actually treat Americans better than Dominican Nationals. To prove this, notice the treatment that you get at the airport in contrast to the treatment that Dominicans get. After this first experience please have your fiancee take you to where the real Dominicans live and not to simply take you to the malls or the colonial zone. It is a bad interpretation of the intense poverty in the country. BTW the average Dominican earned $3,500 per year as per data dating back to 2000., it might have changed, do not know.
