TY  - JOUR
AU  - Friebel,Guido
AU  - Panova,Elena
TI  - Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study  of a Russian Firm in Transition
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12998
PY  - 2007
Y2  - March 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12998
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12998.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Guido Friebel
21 Allee de Brienne
31000 Toulouse
France
E-Mail: friebel@cict.fr

Elena Panova
Université du Québec à Montréal
Département des sciences économiques
Case postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal (Québec), CANADA
H3C 3P8
E-Mail: e_panova@yahoo.com
M3  - presented at "The Analysis of Firms and Employees", January 2, 2007
AB  - We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a market economy began. After 1992, promotions are blocked, because both (i) more managers are hired from the outside, and (ii) fewer managers leave the firm. A possible reason is an extremely weak outsider property rights enforcement in Russia. Keywords: institutional environment and internal labor market, transition to a market economy.
ER  -