Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences - Couverture rigide

Baumol, William J.; Blinder, Alan S.; Wolff, Edward N.

 
9780871540942: Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences

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Downsizing in America In the 1980s and early 1990s, a substantial number of U.S. companies announced major restructuring and downsizing. But we don't know exactly what changes in the U.S. and global economy triggered this phenomenon. Little research has been done on the underlying causes of downsizing. Did companies actually reduce the size of their workforces, or did they simply change the composition of their workforces by firing some kinds of workers and hiring others?Downsizing in America, one of the most comprehensive analyses of the subject to date, confronts all these questions, exploring three main issues: the extent to which firms actually downsized, the factors that tri...

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ISBN 10 :  0871541386 ISBN 13 :  9780871541383
Editeur : Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
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