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What kind of influence does corporate restructuring have on a firm's real value-added, labor productivity, employment figure and wages?
It is said that the result of corporate restructuring in Japan was massive job losses and redundancies in the 1990s. Indeed, looking at the specific reasons for leaving one's job out of all of those unemployed, the number of people who left work involuntarily - for reasons attributable to the workplace or business - rose by almost five times from 320,000 in 1992 to 1.51 million in 2002 (according to the "Labor Force Survey" conducted by the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications). Furthermore, 64% of those involuntarily dismissed from work were core household breadwinning males aged 25 to 64. Today's insecurities over household income and employment have been attributed to firms, which had hitherto placed emphasis on job security, changing their principles and rapidly restructuring.
However, what if these firms......

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