Soviet wages : changes in structure and administration since 1956 /

By:

Kirsch, Leonard Joel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press , c 1972.Description: xii, 237 p.:illISBN:

0262110458

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.2'9'47 KIR

LOC classification:

HD5046 .K53

Summary: This volume is undoubtedly the most substantial published study of Soviet wages since Bergson's The Structure of Soviet Wages (1944). Although its focus is on the wage reform of 1958-60, it also traces the evolution of Soviet wage administration and wage structure (chiefly intra-industry differentials) through 1968. Kirsch's discussion of the rationale for the continuing Soviet reliance on some form .of "payment by results"-whether premiums, piece rates, or some combination of the two-seems particularly useful. The most interesting portions of Kirsch's volume, at least for me, are those concerned with establishing recent trends in Soviet wage inequality. The evidence amassed by Kirsch makes it clear that since the late 1950s, if not earlier, there has been "a significant reduction of wage inequality among industrial workers" (p. 18 1). This trend reflects a reduction in the differentiation of earnings according to skill as well as a decline in inter-industry wage differentials.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	331.2'9'47 KIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100143607

Includes bibliographical references: p. [187]-227 and index.

This volume is undoubtedly the most substantial published study of Soviet wages since Bergson's The Structure of Soviet Wages (1944). Although its focus is on the wage reform of 1958-60, it also traces the evolution of Soviet wage administration
and wage structure (chiefly intra-industry differentials) through 1968. Kirsch's discussion of the rationale for the continuing Soviet reliance on some form .of "payment by results"-whether premiums, piece rates, or some combination of the two-seems particularly useful. The most interesting portions of Kirsch's volume, at least for me, are those concerned with establishing recent trends in Soviet wage inequality. The evidence
amassed by Kirsch makes it clear that since the late 1950s, if not earlier, there has been "a significant reduction of wage inequality among industrial workers" (p. 18 1). This trend reflects a reduction in the differentiation of earnings according
to skill as well as a decline in inter-industry wage differentials.

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