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Edward Elgar Publishing Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?: Lessons from Russia

Name: Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?: Lessons from Russia
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Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unemployment. Some have seen low unemployment as a sign that Russia has undergone no real changes, but others see it as a sign of a remarkably flexible labour market, with very high rates of labour turnover and extremes of wage differentiation allowing low-wage (and even no-wage) employment to persist in the old industries alongside the growth of a new private sector. On this interpretation, Russia shows to the world, in extreme form, both the benefits and the costs of labour market flexibility. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western research, the contributors in this book consider the debates surrounding the recorded levels of official unemployment and question why these levels remain so low. They offer theoretical and empirical critiques of orthodox Western interpretations of the Russian labour market and discuss labour market flexibility, proposing that increased flexibility has resulted in a downgrading of skills in the industrial labour force. This phenomenon, they argue, has particularly affected women who, as a result, have now become marginalized in the labour market. In the detailed empirical evidence they conclude that both the employed and unemployed are active and adaptable in their search for new forms of employment and, as a consequence, will respond to more active and effective policy interventions. In view of this the contributors raise questions about appropriate industrial and labour market policies for all transitional economies. Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment? will be welcomed by students, researchers and academics working in the fields of labour and industrial economics and the economics of transition. Review 'The book will be of great interest to specialists both on labour markets and labour relations in general and on the Russian and other ex-communist economies. It addresses fundamental issues, and deserves to be widely cited.' About the Author Edited by Simon Clarke, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK and Scientific Director, Institute for Comparative Labour Relations Research (ISITO), Moscow, Russia

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Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 185898713X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 January 1998
Listed Since: 15 December 2006

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