Russian Enterprises'
Provision of Social Benefits

Data and Source

The chart above provides a simple listing of the benefits provided by firms pre-transition and at mid-1994. The numbers are for a balanced panel with responses in both periods. Several points stick out. In the first place, the great majority of firms provided and continue to provide a wide range of benefits. Indeed, only 5 percent of respondents offered no benefits pre-transition and this share had shifted marginally upwards to 7 percent by mid-1994. Close to 60 percent of firms provided four or more benefits at the end of the period and what is further striking is that health and child care facilities continue to be provided by over two-thirds of industrial firms. Benefits provision tends to be associated with the larger firms.

Enterprise Restructuring in the FSU