Description
Part 1 Employment planning and labour balances: employment planning – an outline of theoretical and practical issues; labour balances and employment growth; labour shortage and excess labour – branch and territorial imbalances. Part 2 Labour redeployment – trends and institutions: labour redistribution; labour redeployment under “perestroika”; the administration of labour displacement – the Job Placement Bureaux; labour law and job rights. Part 3 The demand for labour; the enterprise demand for labour; the output – versus the employment-oriented approach – the notion of workplace; excess-capacity – a new definition of labour shortage; capacity-labour balance model. Part 4 Production capacity utilization and knowledge: production capacity utilization and shift regime – indicators and quality of information; information and capacity utilization in theory; information on capacity utilization in practice; contradictory information and investment policy; actual and expected outcomes. Part 5 Labour-saving – notion and indicators; labour value of output and productivity; labour-release in planning theory – relative release versus absolute release, conventional labour-release; the principles of labour-saving at the enterprise level; labour-saving in practice – the physical indicators; the rationale of limits on employment; the branch limits on employment; the territorial limits on employment. Part 6 Wages, employment and labour-saving: outline of Soviet wage policy – theory and practice; the wage-productivity relation and employment; labour-saving through wage incentives – experiments and model; wage control – wage norms and the principle of residual formation of the wage fund; the wage reforms – increased differentiation in wage rates and bonuses; the implementation of the wage reform. Conclusion: concluding remarks and discussion of the options for the 1990s.
