# Fire Americans, retain Europeans - research ?

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**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-americans-retain-europeans-research/778082 "2017-01-24T22:19:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-americans-retain-europeans-research/778082/1 "2017-01-24T22:19:33Z")

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WRT multinational corporations having major workforces in the USA and the European Union, I have heard anecdotically that they tend to fire Americans disproportionately over Europeans when facing a downturn. Apparently, this is because it is hard with Government regulation in the EU to fire people.

Questions :

1. Is there good journalism articles covering this phenomenon in detail ? (Either confirming or negating)
2. Is this on Trumps radar ?