Title: Insider privatization and careers - a study of a russian firm in transition
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.