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Joel Brockner, Steven Grover, Thomas Reed, Rocki DeWitt, Michael O'Malley, Survivors' Reactions to Layoffs: We Get by with a Little Help for Our Friends, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1987), pp. 526-541
Brockner et al. (Tue,) studied this question.