Employment Restructuring in Russian Industrial Enterprises
Confronting a `Paradox
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2372886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Schwartz (0000-0002-6639-9486, Cardiff Business School, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-72 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017003017001252 |
| OpenAlex | W2146889068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
Labour market developments in post-Soviet Russia have presented liberal economists with an apparent paradox: the absence of mass compulsory redundancies in the face of substantial collapse in output. The seemingly irrational 'labour hoarding' in Russian enterprises has been interpreted as either influenced by workers choosing a wage cut in exchange for job security, or enterprises resisting redundancies in order to obtain state funding, or as a result of rent-seeking firm behaviour. However, systematic research on employment decision-making in industrial enterprises presents another picture. By combining documentary sources with interviews conducted in six industrial enterprises in Russia, this article will suggest that the disproportionate correlation between employment and production decline lies in the fact that the acute technological and structural degradation of the post-Soviet economy has resulted in enterprise adjustment being made through demand for labour
Business · Economic system · Economics · Hoarding (animal behavior · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Order (exchange · Production (economics · Restructuring · Wage · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Russia and Soviet political economy
Welfare as flourishing social reproduction
From ‘inheritance’ to individualization
Managing the Labour Collective
Navigating a ‘zombie’ system
Overlapping effects
Criminal victimisation and health
The transformation of work and industrial relations in the post-Soviet bloc
Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |