Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Reihe: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
Continuity and Change
Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Reihe: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
ISBN: 978-1-349-11590-7
Verlag: Springer
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Research
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Part 1 Employment planning and labour balances: employment planning - an outline of theoretical and practical issues; labour balances and employment growth; labour shortage and excess labour - branch and territorial imbalances. Part 2 Labour redeployment - trends and institutions: labour redistribution; labour redeployment under "perestroika"; the administration of labour displacement - the Job Placement Bureaux; labour law and job rights. Part 3 The demand for labour; the enterprise demand for labour; the output - versus the employment-oriented approach - the notion of workplace; excess-capacity - a new definition of labour shortage; capacity-labour balance model. Part 4 Production capacity utilization and knowledge: production capacity utilization and shift regime - indicators and quality of information; information and capacity utilization in theory; information on capacity utilization in practice; contradictory information and investment policy; actual and expected outcomes. Part 5 Labour-saving - notion and indicators; labour value of output and productivity; labour-release in planning theory - relative release versus absolute release, conventional labour-release; the principles of labour-saving at the enterprise level; labour-saving in practice - the physical indicators; the rationale of limits on employment; the branch limits on employment; the territorial limits on employment. Part 6 Wages, employment and labour-saving: outline of Soviet wage policy - theory and practice; the wage-productivity relation and employment; labour-saving through wage incentives - experiments and model; wage control - wage norms and the principle of residual formation of the wage fund; the wage reforms - increased differentiation in wage rates and bonuses; the implementation of the wage reform. Conclusion: concluding remarks and discussion of the options for the 1990s.