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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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Author:   Igor Chernyshev
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9781858660080

ISBN 10:   1858660084
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   02 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface F. Mehran Notes on contributors Introduction I. Chernyshev PART I: MAJOR CHALLENGES IN LABOUR STATISTICS 1. Labour force, employment and unemployment 2. Wage and labour cost 3. Classification of occupations 4. Measuring employment trends, labour shortages and skill gaps in transition countries E. Hoffmann and I. Chernyshev 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 6. Some aspects of labour analysis in the CIS countries I. Manykina 7. Towards a strategy of reform for systems of pay classification in countries in Central and Eastern Europe J. Kux 8. Hungarian labour statistics in transition A. Keleti PART II: LABOUR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT 9. International standards on the measurement of economic activity, employment, unemployment and underemployment R. Hussmanns 10. Statistical study of employment and unemployment in the Republic of Belarus K. Kiseleva 11. The Labour Force Survey in Czechoslovakia B. Mejstrík and J. Kux 12. The Hungarian Labour Force Survey, 1992: Reference Manual Hungarian Central Statistical Office 13. The Polish Labour Force Survey J. Witkowski 14. The Labour Force Survey: a means of statistical investigation of the Romanian labour market I. Vantu 15. The guidelines for the transition of Russian Federation statistics for the study of employment and unemployment through Labour Force Surveys T. Gorbacheva PART Ill: WAGE AND LABOUR COST 16. International standards of wage statistics: summary R. Rassou 17. Establishment surveys: a review of national practices M-T. Dupre 18. Wage-fixing policy: consequences of wage data gathering F. Eyraud 19. Wage and labour cost statistics in Czechoslovakia J. Kux 20. The Hungarian Labour Cost Survey Hungarian Central Statistical Office 21. Wage statistics in the Republic of Lithuania Department of Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania 22. The revised International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) E. Hoffmann and M. Scott 23. Mapping a national classification of occupations into ISCO-88: outline of a strategy E. Hoffmann 24. Mapping the world of work: an international review of the use and gathering of occupational information E. Hoffmann 25. The revision of the Hungarian system of classifying occupations J. Foti and G Lazar 26. System of classification and description of occupations in the Soviet Union: structure, purpose and issues relating to improvements S. Makovlev and V. Ouvarov ANNEXES 1. ILO-comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates: updated results and methodology (No. 3) (Extract) I. Chernyshev and S. Lawrence 2. Methodological description of the Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation 3. Questionnaire used in a sample survey of the population on employment Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation 4. Conceptual and technical outline of the Hungarian Labour Force Survey 5. Labour force sample survey for Czechoslovakia 6. Hungarian Labour Force Survey questionnaire 7. Conceptual outline of the planned Romanian Labour Force Survey 8. The ISC0-88 major groups

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Igor Chernyshev Member of the ILO Bureau of Statistics since 1986, he previously worked with the Central Statistical Office of Ukraine. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Statistics from the Kiev State University. His responsibility has been the ILO-comparable employment and unemployment estimates project, which has resulted in the regular publication of comparable data since 1990. He is currently organizing and coordinating the ILO technical support in the field of labour statistics to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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