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Question: Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in Elthyria maintains that the majority of competent workers who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this claim is undermined by a recent report on the Elthyrian economy, which found that since 1999 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated, bringing the unemployment rate in Elthyria to its lowest level in decades. Moreover, two-thirds of these newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time." *Downsizing is the process whereby corporations deliberately make themselves smaller, reducing the number of their employees. Answer: The statement points out that the article which claims those workers who have lost their job because of downsizing in Elthyria is questionable because it contradicts with a report which states that the Elthyria has create much more jobs and unemployment rate in Elthyria is at the bottom in a period of a decade. Besides, the letter also points out that the payment of those recent created jobs are above the average and most of those jobs are full-time. However, at first glance, the article is flawed because it overlooks several important details and makes some logic problems. To begin with, whether the report on the recent employment is trustworthy is questionable. After all, the argument does not inform us adequately of details about it which, in a sense, might significantly undermine the validity of this report. Whether the report had chosen its sample from a large and random data pool representative enough to exhibit the general conditions in Elthyria is unclear. Perhaps that report had only focused its attention on some specific industry area whose information is easy to approach. The idea of searching for data on the basis of the difficult level can make a bias on credit of this result. Even if the report is valid enough to prove all their outcomes to be true, including the statement about the unemployment rates compared with different years and jobs created recently, the argument is still unconvincing. In fact, since the article only supply us the information of the comparison between divergent period in Elthyria while not any situation about the general unemployment rate in other cities. It is entirely possible that both the unemployment rate and number are much more beyond other cities. Lacking any evidence to prove the unemployment rate is lower compared horizontally, we cannot claim unequivocally that the statement is persuasive. In addition, the fact that more jobs has been created recently does not indicate that the employment issues are relieved because the unemployment problems, like making trade in the market, concern themselves with two divergent aspects-supply for qualified workers and demand of company. Obviously, the article only considers the side of supply while overlooks the other. Perhaps the population of Elthyria has been increasing exponentially, which identically occurs in the world range, to a degree that the rise of job number could be too small to be counted in, hence leads to a dramatic decrease of unemployment rate in Elthyria. Besides, the improvement of condition of newly created job cannot illustrate the improvement of workers. On the contrast, the phenomenon may have a sensory negative influence on the employment rate. First, given that the average payment for new workers, company are currently more considering their cost for every worker, which can directly or indirectly decline the number of workers they required. Second, the increasing payment of workers induces fiercer competitiveness, lead to every worker pay much more effort and energy on one single career to be regarded as a worthy worker. Both of these mechanisms inflate the difficulties workers are facing to get a decent job. In sum, the criticism of original article relies on doubtful assumptions that it renders unconvincing as it stands. To bolster the passage the author must provide clear information of the recent report mentioned above, specifically the research methodology and details of sample selection. Besides, necessary information about the employment in other city should be added into the article to prove the improving condition in Elthyria. | 
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发表于 2013-9-17 18:50:23
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