Investors will find out Friday if Citigroup and General Electric will continue the recent spate of robust first-quarter earnings displayed by Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
It will take data from the annual survey of hours and earnings and display information about pay so that people are able to compare wages with others in their sector and region.
Using data from 1653 firms in 46 countries, the authors conclude that "a firm with CSR in mind tends not to smooth earnings, and displays less interest in avoiding earnings losses and decreases.
Samsung Electronics, the semiconductor and flat-screen maker, posted a smaller drop in fourth-quarter profit than analysts estimated as liquid-crystal display earnings countered a decline in chip prices.
The documents were edited for the presentation, displaying earnings and losses not as dollar amounts but as ranges represented by letters A ($1,000 to $5,000) to G ($500,000 or more).
Samsung, the world's biggest TV maker, also reported a big jump in its earnings in its display panel division.
Samsung Electronics has reported a record quarterly profit boosted by growing smartphone sales and a surge in earnings at its display panel division.
The variable "total earnings in career" displayed a rather skewed distribution and to reduce the effect of possible outliers, this variable was analysed in log-transformed form.
But losses narrowed from the previous quarter, helped by strong earnings from the OLED display, which is widely expected to replace LCD as the next-generation flat-screen in mobile devices and TVs.
And, just a few days after Nokia released a prototype of its bendable Kinetic Device last October, Samsung Investor Relations VP Robert Yi said the following in a quarterly earnings call: "The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part.
