Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Preface vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: MAJOR CHALLENGES IN LABOUR STATISTICS
7. 1. Labour force, employment and unemployment 9
8. 2. Wage and labour cost 13
9. 3. Classification of occupations 17
10. 4. Measuring employment trends, labour shortages and skill gaps in transition countries 21
11. 5. Revision of labour statistics systems in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the light of the ILO international recommendations 35
12. 6. Some aspects of labour analysis in the CIS countries 47
13. 7. Towards a strategy of reform for systems of pay classification in countries in Central and Eastern Europe 59
14. 8. Hungarian labour statistics in transition 69
15. PART II: LABOUR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
16. 9. International standards on the measurement of economic activity, employment, unemployment and underemployment 77
17. 10. Statistical study of employment and unemployment in the Republic of Belarus 107
18. 11. The Labour Force Survey in Czechoslovakia 111
19. 12. The Hungarian Labour Force Survey, 1992: Reference Manual 119
20. 13. The Polish Labour Force Survey 125
21. 14. The Labour Force Survey: a means of statistical investigation of the Romanian labour market 135
22. 15. The guidelines for the transition of Russian Federation statistics for the study of employment and unemployment through Labour Force Surveys 143
23. PART III: WAGE AND LABOUR COST
24. 16. International standards of wage statistics: summary 151
25. 17. Establishment surveys: a review of national practices 155
26. 18. Wage-fixing policy: consequences of wage data gathering 165
27. 19. Wage and labour cost statistics in Czechoslovakia 179
28. 20. The Hungarian Labour Cost Survey 183
29. 21. Wage statistics in the Republic of Lithuania 185
30. PART IV: CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS
31. 22. The revised International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) 189
32. 23. Mapping a national classification of occupations into ISCO-88: outline of a strategy 203
33. 24. Mapping the world of work: an international review of the use and gathering of occupational information 211
34. 25. The revision of the Hungarian system of classifying occupations 233
35. 26. System of classification and description of occupations in the Soviet Union: structure, purpose and issues relating to improvements 243
36. ANNEXES
37. 1. ILO-comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates: updated results and methodology (No. 3) (Extract) 259
38. 2. Methodological description of the Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation 277
39. 3. Questionnaire used in a sample survey of the population on employment Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation 281
40. 4. Conceptual and technical outline of the Hungarian Labour Force Survey 293
41. 5. Labour force sample survey for Czechoslovakia 299
42. 6. Hungarian Labour Force Survey questionnaire 315
43. 7. Conceptual outline of the planned Romanian Labour Force Survey 325
44. 8. The ISC0-88 major groups 331