Closing the “Bergson Gap”: New Data on a Problem in Soviet Statistics
利用新解密的苏联档案,验证了五十年前西方学者关于苏联工资总额与就业数据存在巨大缺口的判断,为理解苏联统计问题提供了新证据。
Over fifty years ago, Abram Bergson, Janet Chapman, and others sought to assess the large gap in Soviet statistics between the published wage bill and the full wage bill; and Frank Lorimer drew attention to the related gap between the employment data in the 1939 population census and in the annual employment returns. Soviet archives which have recently been declassified reveal the considerable extent to which the findings of the Western authors were accurate. 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.