Job Rights in the Soviet Union

Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-521-33295-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

The book is concerned with the right of an employee of a Soviet state enterprise to keep his existing job, unless he/she voluntarily quit it to search for another, and with the maintaining of overfull employment in all regional labor markets of the Soviet Union. The author hypothesises that over most other objectives to preserving these conditions favorable for labor. This hypothesis is contrasted with that which explains the low unemployment and low dismissal rate in the Soviet Union simply by the oberheating of the economy, finding a parallel here with capitalist economies in high-boom periods. The novelty of the book is twofold. It is the first examination of the Soviet economy from the theoretic viewpoint described above. Second, it is a full length treatment of labor markets in the Soviet Union and is the first study of such markets since that of Abram Bergson published in the 1940s. Indeed, no similar treatment of labor markets exists for any centrally planned socialist economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Granick, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Soviet labor market: its characteristics; 3. Overall employment and job rights; 3. Maximization model for testing the JROE hypothesis-set; 5. Fixed prices and JROE; 6. Fixed investment and JROE; 7. Education and JROE; 8. The labor market and JROE; 9. Some applications; 10. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.