To minimize the bias, in our regression models, we have adjusted for firms' workforce characteristics that potentially affect output and wages, which were derived from individual-level worker data.
For example, Mandurah et al. (2012) and Emtairah et al. (2009) explored managerial perceptions of the concept of CSR in Saudi Arabia and found that managers are aware of the concept, but there is little connection between the managerial level perceptions and firms' workforce.
And to see how all this can be done in a territorially responsible way by expanding local firm and workforce capability and improving quality of work.
Many analysts worry that Dell will not be able to get its costs under control, despite plans to cut $3 billion in expenses over three years and lay off more than 8,800 employees, nearly a tenth of the firm's workforce.
It now looks ripe for massive consolidation.Sweden's Ericsson, the world's third-largest maker of mobile telephones after Finland's Nokia and America's Motorola, set the scene on Friday April 20th when it announced that it would cut 12,000 jobs, more than one in ten of the firm's workforce.
Then on December 9th EADS announced that it was cutting 5,800 jobs across Europe as part of a reorganisation of its defence and space activities.In the past such an announcement would have set off a barrage of accusations, and not only from the firm's workforce.
According to CNBC, the firings will total around 15percentt of the firm's workforce.
However, unlike for small firms, I find no significant differences between internationalized and domestic firms in regard to the effects of the qualification structure of a firm's workforce on a firm's training provision.
The age composition of a firm's workforce, measured by the shares of specific age groups in total employment, is used to test whether more youthful firms are more innovative (see, e.g., Poot, 2008).
The contribution of this paper is therefore twofold: first, it provides a comprehensive and detailed portrait of sectoral wage floors in Italy by year, region, firm and workforce characteristics.
