Inside the Black Box: The Evolution of Internal Labor Markets During Economic Transition in Russian and Ukrainian Firms

黑匣子内部：俄罗斯和乌克兰企业经济转型期间内部劳动力市场的演变

• 批准号: 27317556
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Hartmut Lehmann, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/27317556?language=en
• 关键词: Inside; Black; Box; Evolution; Internal; Inside; Black; Box; Evolution; Internal

We analyze personnel data of large Russian and Ukrainian firms in the manufacturing sector, in order to shed light on the internal organization of labor in Soviet and Post-Soviet firms during the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. This marks the first attempt of studying detailed personnel records of firms in transition economies. We have already collected some data from the personnel records of one large Russian manufacturing firm for 1997 through 2003. These data will be refined by compiling additional information on worker and career characteristics and extended by gathering data covering the period from 1990 until 2008. This will allow us to analyze the internal labor market adjustments during perestroika and all stages of transition. In addition, we will collect personnel data in a similar format from two more Russian firms and at least one Ukrainian firm. We are the first to provide empirical evidence on the functioning of internal labor markets in transition economies. Complementing the literature on Western internal labor markets, we will make a crucial contribution by establishing those patterns of internal labor markets that prevail in any institutional setting and any economic environment and those patterns that are idiosyncratic. Analyzing what happens inside firms during transition is a constructive method to better understand the organizational and behavioral shifts in firms that undergo large scale restructuring. Therefore, the empirical study will also provide valuable insights for the analysis of transition and of other economies facing a major episode of structural change and thus will be useful for economic agents as well as for policy makers.

我们分析了制造业中俄罗斯和乌克兰大型公司的人事数据，以阐明从苏联和后苏联公司在从中央计划到市场经济的过渡期间。这标志着研究过渡经济体中公司的详细人员记录的首次尝试。我们已经从1997年至2003年的一家大型俄罗斯制造公司的人员记录中收集了一些数据。这些数据将通过编写有关工人和职业特征的其他信息来完善，并通过收集从1990年到2008年的期间进行数据扩展。这将使我们能够分析Perestroika期间的内部劳动力市场调整以及所有阶段。此外，我们将从另外两家俄罗斯公司和至少一家乌克兰公司收集类似格式的人员数据。我们是第一个提供有关过渡经济体内部劳动力市场运作的经验证据的人。与西方内部劳动力市场的文献相辅相成，我们将通过建立在任何机构环境，任何经济环境以及那些特殊模式的内部劳动力市场模式来做出至关重要的贡献。分析过渡期间公司内部发生的事情是一种建设性的方法，可以更好地了解进行大规模重组的公司的组织和行为转变。因此，实证研究还将为过渡和其他经济体的分析提供有价值的见解，这些经济体面临的结构变化主要事件，因此对于经济代理商和政策制定者都将很有用。