The phrase "a decrease in workers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in workforce numbers, such as in economic reports or organizational assessments.
Example: "The company reported a decrease in workers due to the recent layoffs."
Alternatives: "a reduction in staff" or "a decline in employees."
Postal officials have credited the progress to increased efficiencies, a decrease in workers' compensation, and growth in shipping and package services — although first-class mail volume has declined.
"Because job change accounts for a substantial portion of earnings growth, especially for younger workers, this decrease in churning reflects a decrease in workers' opportunities for [higher wages]," write the study's authors, economists John Haltiwanger of the University of Maryland and Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer and Liliana Sousa of the Census Bureau.
A decrease in workers' outside option through a decrease in unemployment benefits or public-sector wages and a decrease in union's bargaining power unambiguously decreases private-sector wage claims and makes it more attractive for firms to create jobs.
The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker productivity on sunny days.
Delays in retirement lead to a decrease in younger workers' wage growth.
The economy would not only be hit with a decrease in full time workers and educated employees, there would also be a huge cost in taking care of all those pregnancies and babies.
Here, a 1 percentage point increase in the share of Mexican immigrants in the PUMA corresponds to a decrease in African-American workers' wages of 3%%, as opposed to an 8.4%% decrease, without the control for MSA fixed effects.
In accord with this reasoning, the most basal morphological specialization in social hymenopterans is an increase in size of queens or a decrease in size of workers [29].
For women, workers at the extra small-sized firms have the largest response as the coefficient estimate indicates a 1% increase in industry shutdown rate causes a 3% decrease in worker wage growth.
In the case of both the permanent and non-permanent categories of workers it was found that, in the long term, there had been a decrease in the number of workers who had finished primary or secondary education and an increase in the number of workers who had completed university education (Fig. 4).
Wages increase only with an increase in capital or a decrease in the number of workers.
