Jobless Recovery Explained in Two Simple Statistics
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 8:50 am
Wondering what’s behind those recent jobless recovery numbers?
1. Fortune 500 companies tripled their profits to $391 billion in 2009.
2. They also slashed their payrolls by more than 800,000 jobs.
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Comment posted April 15, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
Do these statistics tell us anything worthwhile about how many jobs are involved? They may be interesting from an industrial organization point of view, but the number of jobs a company has can fluctuate dramatically depending on which tasks are performed in-house and which are purchased from other firms. The fact that some big firms have been able to organize themselves around their high-profitability activities and potentially out-source their low-profitability activities does not help to understand a jobless recovery.
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Comment posted April 16, 2010 @ 12:53 am
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Comment posted April 17, 2010 @ 7:21 am
Well, in part the profits exist /because/ they slashed workers.
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