Abstract
This paper is an analysis of labour and employment developments in Russian Industry based on a survey of 340 factories in four major industrial regions, Moscow City, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod in 1993. The rationale behind the Russian Labour Flexibility Survey (RLFS), of which this was the third round, has been that Russian macro-societal economic and social reforms cannot succeed without micro-economic restructuring, and reform of labour and employment policies and practices in industrial enterprises - the core of the Russian economy - was neglected in the early phases of the attempted - shock therapy- policy.
Designed, organised and conducted by the ILO, in collaboration with Russian colleagues and Goskomstat of the Russian Federation, the RLFS is based on a comprehensive two-part series of factory visits, in which a vast amount of labour and related information is gathered from senior management. Unquestionably, the RLFS represents the most detailed survey of these issues conducted in Russia, and provides data by which labour market developments can be traced in this extraordinary period of economic restructuring.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Russian Labour Flexibility Survey
3. Structural Characteristics and Property Restructuring
4. Capacity Utilisation in 1991-93
5. The Jobs Haemorrhage: "Labour Surplus" and Employment Cuts
6. Unpaid Leave - Disguised Unemployment
7. Vacancies and Labour Turnover
8. Occupational Restructuring
9. The Impact of Restructuring on Women Workers
10. Impact of Restructuring on Older Workers
11. Changes in Wages, Earnings and Benefits
12. Training and Labour Efficiency
13. Concluding Remarks
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