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so for those firms with high levels of debt. However, downsizing is limited by soft budget constraints. …
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The number of staff restructuring processes has considerably increased worldwide in recent years, and their effects are increasingly dramatic. Furthermore, the global economic context is becoming more and more turbulent. All this poses a series of new challenges for firms that they will only be...
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The article deals with understanding the phenomena of employee rationalisation in firms especially the ones operating in dynamic environments. In this paper the authors do an extensive review of literature to understand the complete cycle, which is from environmental conditions leading to...
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privatization prices. In confirmation of the adverse selection argument, various types of voluntary downsizing lead to a higher …
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This paper presents the problem of workers lay off and loss along with their exit from the organization its key competencies - skills and knowledge. Importance of management of key competencies was described. The paper also presents outplacement as a way to maintain core competencies even during...
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We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing … between 1993 and 1998 were 27.9 percent more likely to utilize disability pensions in 1999 than comparable workers in non-downsizing … plants. The effect of downsizing is non-linear, with workers originally employed in plants downsizing 65-95 percent of their …
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variable bias is addressed by employing a novel instrumental variable (IV) strategy, using plant downsizing at neighbors …
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Using Norwegian register data we estimate how children's school performance is affected by their parents' exposure to plant closure. Fathers' exposure leads to a substantial decline in children's graduation-year grade point average, but only in municipalities with mediocre-performing job...
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