Labour Statistics for a Market Economy: Challenges and Solutions in the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Igor Chernyshev

Published by Central European University Press 1994

Labour Statistics for a Market Economy

Challenges and Solutions in the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Igor Chernyshev

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633864838

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The International Labour Office is the moving force behind the adoption of the Labour Force Survey in Western countries as the only reliable means of gathering information about trends in employment and unemployment, and on pay. The countries of East-Central Europe and the former USSR have recognized their need of such statistiics and turned to the ILO to help them set up systems to provide data required by decision makers. This pioneering work shows how the old "command" economies are setting up brand new systems to classify occupations, to measure employment and unemployment, and to collect information on wages and labour costs, which will be useful to students of the area and essential for statisticians world-wide concerned with the challenge of instigating an entirely new statistical service.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Preface F. Mehran Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction I. Chernyshev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: MAJOR CHALLENGES IN LABOUR STATISTICS
1. Labour force, employment and unemployment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Wage and labour cost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Classification of occupations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
4. Measuring employment trends, labour shortages and skill gaps in transition countries E. Hoffmann and I. Chernyshev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
5. Revision of labour statistics systems in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the light of the ILO international recommendations I. Chernyshev, V. Gouriev and I. Manykina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
6. Some aspects of labour analysis in the CIS countries I. Manykina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
7. Towards a strategy of reform for systems of pay classification in countries in Central and Eastern Europe J. Kux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
8. Hungarian labour statistics in transition A. Keleti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
PART II: LABOUR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
9. International standards on the measurement of economic activity, employment, unemployment and underemployment R. Hussmanns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
10. Statistical study of employment and unemployment in the Republic of Belarus K. Kiseleva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
11. The Labour Force Survey in Czechoslovakia B. Mejstrik and J. Kux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
12. The Hungarian Labour Force Survey, 1992: Reference Manual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
13. The Polish Labour Force Survey J. Witkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
14. The Labour Force Survey: a means of statistical investigation of the Romanian labour market I. Vantu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
15. The guidelines for the transition of Russian Federation statistics for the study of employment and unemployment through Labour Force Surveys T. Gorbacheva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
PART III: WAGE AND LABOUR COST
16. International standards of wage statistics: summary R. Rassou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
17. Establishment surveys: a review of national practices M. T. Dupre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
18. Wage-fixing policy: consequences of wage data gathering F. Eyraud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
19. Wage and labour cost statistics in Czechoslovakia J. Kux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
20. The Hungarian Labour Cost Survey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
21. Wage statistics in the Republic of Lithuania Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
PART IV: CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS
22. The revised International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) E. Hoffmann and M. Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
23. Mapping a national classification of occupations into ISCO-88: outline of a strategy E. Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
24. Mapping the world of work: an international review of the use and gathering of occupational information E. Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
25. The revision of the Hungarian system of classifying occupations J. Foti and G. Lazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
26. System of classification and description of occupations in the Soviet Union: structure, purpose and issues relating to improvements S. Makovlev and V. Ouvarov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
ANNEXES
1. ILO-comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates: updated results and methodology (No. 3) (Extract) I. Chernyshev and S. Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
2. Methodological description of the Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
3. Questionnaire used in a sample survey of the population on employment Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
4. Conceptual and technical outline of the Hungarian Labour Force Survey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
5. Labour force sample survey for Czechoslovakia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
6. Hungarian Labour Force Survey questionnaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
7. Conceptual outline of the planned Romanian Labour Force Survey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
8. The ISC0-88 major groups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 353
Keywords: employment; unemployment

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Published: January 1, 1995
ISBN: 9789633864838