The formation of a labour market in Russia / Simon Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Simon, 1946-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Russia (Federation).

Labor market.

Russia (Federation).

Labor market--Russia (Federation)--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 1999.

Contents:

1. The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia? 1

Theories of the labour market: economics and sociology 2

2. The Russian Labour Market 13

The labour market in the soviet period 13

The administrative allocation of labour 13

Labour mobility 16

Labour market intermediaries 19

Labour market policy 20

The impact of perestroika on the soviet labour market 22

The labour market in the period of radical reform 25

Structural changes in employment in the period of reform 26

The differentiation of pay 32

Does the Russian labour market work? 35

Labour market theory and the dispersion of wages 46

3. Management Employment Strategy 53

Structure and functions of the soviet enterprise 55

Employment strategy in the soviet enterprise 61

Enterprise survival and managerial employment strategies 66

The preservation of the labour collective 74

Wage and employment policy in the first phase of reform 76

The employment consequences of deepening crisis 78

Bringing employment under control: initiatives from below 84

Preservation of the nucleus of the labour collective 88

Keeping the best 91

Reducing the rest 96

The limits of decentralisation 106

Bringing the number employed into correspondence with the demands of production 107

Flexibility and temporary workers 112

The limits of centralisation 119

The polarisation of industrial enterprises 125

Hiring policies of industrial enterprises 129

Hiring through connections 132

Hiring from the street 141

Labour market intermediaries 144

New private enterprises 149

4. The Motivation of Workers and the Russian Labour Market 162

Why do people change jobs in Russia? 163

Does labour market behaviour differ between small towns and big cities? 174

Characteristics of the enterprise, branch and sector of the economy 175

Gender, age and labour market behaviour 178

Education and employment status 183

The impact of reform 186

Why do people not leave their jobs? 188

The fear of not being able to find another job 192

The worker as a 'hostage' to the enterprise 193

Attachment to the job 194

Who changes jobs? 195

5. Labour Market Behaviour: How do People Get Their Jobs? 199

The institutional framework of the labour market 199

The channels of labour mobility 202

The job placement of young people 214

The system of distribution 214

Starting a career in post-soviet Russia 216

The nomenklatura system 220

Deciding to change jobs 222

Personal connections 224

Personal connections as a source of information 225

Personal connections as a source of help 228

Independent job search 238

Creating one's own job 241

Use of advertisements 242

Use of institutional channels: state employment service 244

Private labour exchanges 247

Transitions through unemployment 248

Transitions to the new private sector 255

Evaluation of alternative channels 259

Channels of hiring and labour market segmentation 263

6. Appendix Sources of Data on Income and Employment 273

Official data sources 273

The collection and reporting of official statistics 273

The labour force survey 275

Statistical reporting by enterprises 276

Administrative estimates of employment 279

Evaluation of data sources on employment trends 282

Official data on wages 285

Survey data 287

Publicly available datasets 287

Isito research data 289

Work history survey 289

Labour Force Survey Supplement 290

Household survey 290.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299- 308) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1858988314

OCLC:

41960762