Finally, I include a number of indicators for the skill of the workforce and for technological intensity at the industry level: the average years of schooling in the three-digit industry (taken from the Labor Force Survey in 1989-1990), whether the firm engages in R&D, and dummies for medium-low, medium-high and high-tech industries.
Some indicators can be helpful in performing a gap analysis, such as employment indicators (e.g. vacancies rates, growth of the workforce, occupational unemployment rate and turnover rate), activity indicators (e.g. overtime), monetary indicators (e.g. wages), and normative population-based indicators (e.g. doctors/populations ratios) [ 3].
The data source of the workforce density indicator is the World Health Organization's Global Atlas of the Health Workforce [ 10].
Change in the distribution of first-time R01-equivalent awards is a highly sensitive, leading indicator of the future composition of the research workforce.
The work environment is potentially as important as the external environment in the assessment of impacts on health and well-being [ 2] and the health of the workforce is a relevant indicator of sustainability [ 3].
Furthermore, R&D is only one of the indicators for innovation; others include institutional and social regulations, education of the workforce, and technical skills of the workforce.
The findings serve as an indicator of the competencies and educational needs of wider Mental Health workforce of the region and nation.
To explore this effect further, we then added a dummy variable measuring whether the respondent works part-time herself and allowed this variable to interact with the institutional indicator of the proportion of part-time work amongst the female workforce.
We were unable to draw firm conclusions about the outcomes of the workforce projects for reasons identified above; however, there were clear process indicators associated with project success.
Roughly 25% of the workforce sat idle.
