Unemployment in capitalist, communist and post-communist economies:
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables and Figures xi
Introduction xiv
PART I UNEMPLOYMENT IN CAPITALIST AND
COMMUNIST ECONOMIES
1 Theories of Open Unemployment 3
1.1 Market Capitalism 3
1.2 Command Socialism 7
Conclusion 9
2 Measurement and Rates of Open Unemployment 11
2.1 Measurement 11
2.2 Prewar Rates 13
2.3 Postwar Rates 14
2.4 The Natural Rate of Unemployment 17
Conclusion 19
3 Differences in Open Unemployment 21
3.1 Differences between Countries 21
3.2 Differences within Countries 24
3.3 Duration of Open Unemployment 25
Conclusion 28
4 Open Unemployment under Command Socialism 30
4.1 The Interwar Period 30
4.2 The Era of Command Socialism 32
4.3 Unemployment Compensation 35
Conclusion 36
5 Hidden Unemployment 38
5.1 Dimensions of Hidden Unemployment 38
5.2 Hidden Unemployment under
Command Socialism 39
5.3 Estimates of Overmanning under
Command Socialism 41
5.4 Overmanning under Market Capitalism 42
Conclusion 45
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6 Economic Reforms under Command Socialism 48
6.1 Options 48
6.2 Outcome 50
6.3 Soviet Union 53
Conclusion 54
7 Relative Economic Performance 56
7.1 Measurement 56
7.2 Unemployment 57
7.3 Inflation 58
7.4 Economic Growth 59
7.5 Standard of Living 61
Conclusion 64
8 Unemployment in Yugoslavia and China 66
8.1 Yugoslavia 66
8.2 China 72
Conclusion 75
PART II UNEMPLOYMENT IN POST COMMUNIST
ECONOMIES
9 The Collapse of Communism 79
9.1 National Revolutions 79
9.2 Components of Economic Transformation 81
9.3 The Dynamics of Transformation 82
9.4 Preconditions and Consequences 84
Conclusion 85
10 Unemployment Compensation 87
10.1 The Social Safety Net 87
10.2 Unemployment Insurance and
Unemployment Assistance 88
10.3 Former Eastern Europe 90
10.4 Soviet Union anil Russia 95
10.5 Albania 96
Conclusion 97
11 Registered Unemployment 98
11.1 Rates of Registered Unemployment 98
11.2 Composition of the Unemployed 100
11.3 Duration of Registered Unemployment 101
11.4 Causes of Registered Unemployment 104
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11.5 Employment Situation 106
11.6 Output 107
11.7 Government Revenue and Spending 109
Conclusion 111
12 Eastern Germany 113
12.1 Unification 113
12.2 Privatization 115
12.3 Unemployment 116
12.4 The Costs of Unification 118
12.5 Trade Unions and Unemployment 120
Conclusion 122
13 Soviet Union and Russia 124
13.1 The End of the Soviet Union 124
13.2 Post communist Russia 128
13.3 Unemployment 129
Conclusion 133
14 Open Unemployment and the Population 135
14.1 Forecasts 135
14.2 Western Experience 136
14.3 Unemployment 138
14.4 The Nanny State 140
14.5 The Visible versus the Invisible Hand 141
14.6 The Speed of Transformation 145
Conclusion 146
PART HI SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, PROSPECTS
15 Economic Systems and Unemployment 151
15.1 Unemployment under Command Socialism 151
15.2 Unemployment under Market Capitalism 154
15.3 A Synopsis 155
15.4 The Third Way 157
Conclusion 159
16 Participation in Economic Activity 160
16.1 Work versus Employment 160
16.2 Two Concepts of the Labour Market 164
16.3 Full Employment I66
Conclusion ^
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17 Causes of Open Unemployment 170
17.1 Classification of Open Unemployment 170
17.2 Individual Causes 171
17.3 Economic Actors 173
17.4 Anti Unemployment Measures 175
Conclusion 177
18 Outlook 179
18.1 European Community 179
18.2 Low Unemployment Countries 180
18.3 Post Communist Societies 182
18.4 Has History Ended? 185
Notes 189
Select Bibliography 216
Index 228
I
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
2.1 Average rates of open unemployment,
United Kingdom, 1947 84 15
2.2 Average rates of open unemployment,
OECDarea, 1948 84 16
2.3 Average standardized rates of open
unemployment, total OECD, 1971 89 16
2.4 Actual and natural rates of open
unemployment, United Kingdom, 1956 90 18
3.1 Standardized rates of open unemployment,
selected OECD countries, 1971 89 21
3.2 Long term open unemployment 26
7.1 Labour force participation rates, Soviet bloc countries 58
7.2 Per capita GNP, selected countries, 1956 and 1962 60
7.3 Per capita GDP, Soviet bloc countries, 1988 60
7.4 Relative levels of per capita consumption in the
Soviet Union and selected countries, 1975 76 62
7.5 Share of expenditure on food, beverages, and tobacco
in total consumption, selected countries, 1975 76 62
7.6 Real wages, five Soviet bloc countries, 1965 82 63
7.7 Incomes of the average Czechoslovak household 64
8.1 Number of registered unemployed, Yugoslavia. 1953 88 68
8.2 Proportional deployment of the active
labour force, Yugoslavia, 1965 81 68
8.3 Composition of the total labour force.
Yugoslavia, 1971 87 69
8.4 Overmanning in the social sector, Yugoslavia. 1960 88 71
11.1 Registered unemployment in five post communist
economies 1989 93 99
11.2 Number of registered unemployed per one vacancy
in post communist economies 102
11.3 Proportion of the registered unemployed in receipt
of unemployment benefit, Czechoslovakia 104
11.4 Changes in GDP in post communist economies 108
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xii List of Tables and Figures
11.5 Government expenditure on labour market
programmes in post communist economies 110
12.1 Status of Treuhand privatization, end of
November 1991 116
12.2 Registered unemployment, short time working,
and participation in training programmes,
eastern Germany, 1989 93 117
12.3 Labour market policies, eastern Germany, 1992 3 118
12.4 Government expenditure on labour market
programmes, eastern Germany, 1991 2 119
13.1 Attitudes towards open unemployment,
Soviet Union, 1988 90 126
13.2 Registered job seekers, registered unemployed
and vacancies, Russia, 1992 3 130
13.3 Changes in GDP, NMP and industrial output,
Russia, 1990 5 132
14.1 Attitudes towards open unemployment, open inflation
and protest in Austria and five post communist
countries, November 1991 January 1992 139
14.2 Perceived likelihood of mass demonstrations and
protests in Russia, January February 1992 140
14.3 Preferred type of economic system in selected
post communist countries, May 1991
February 1992 142
14.4 Attitudes towards the old economic system and
state ownership in six post communist countries,
November 1992 March 1993 143
14.5 Attitudes towards the free market economy in seven
post communist countries, November 1992 144
14.6 Attitudes towards the pace of economic
transformation in seven post communist countries,
November 1992 145
14.7 Selected attitudes in eastern and western Germany,
April May 1993 147
15.1 Economic systems and unemployment 156
18.1 Rates of open unemployment, selected OECD
countries, 1989 93 181
18.2 IMF forecasts 185
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List of Tables and Figures xiii
Figures
16.1 Work versus employment in modern economies 161
16.2 Categories of persons of post school age by participation
in gainful economic activity 162
16.3 Change of employment status 163
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