Thanks for your answer, Amelia. It may be the case that your source was biased and the people who produced the report was trying to spread the feeling that large corporations are collectively providing the majority of the jobs worldwide. But I don't think this is so (it is certainly not so in Spain, where SMEs are, by large, the responsibles of the majority of jobs, and they depend crucially in new information technologies for their survival.)<br>
<br>The largest employer in the world, by far, is Wall-Mart [I'm using Fortune Magazine data here, and I am making calculations using an
estimation of a labour force worldwide of about 3.230 million people for
a population of 7.000 million people]. WallMart employs (some would say that's only a way of speaking) 2.200.000 workers. That's a huge number, but it's only a 0,07% of the labour force worldwide. The next largest employer (China national petroleum) employs just 1.700.000 workers (ca. 0,05 of labour force worldwide) . The 50th largest corporation by number of employees is Berkshire (270K employees, a 0,008% of the total). The biggest corporation by revenue in 2011 (Royal Dutch Shell) employs 90K people (about the same as the second largest), that is a 0,002%.<br>
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More than 90% of all Europeans are employed by medium- to
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this is absolute news to me. Can you give a hint to the source
of your data? <br>
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I suppose I have read it in a Commission study somewhere. I was also
surprised when I read it since the general buzz is that Europe is
endowed with exceptionally many SMEs (about 90% of all our
enterprises are SMEs). It is not my area of expertise so I can't
easily relocate the same study - I hope you provide me with leniency
for this. <br>
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However, it also makes sense, since medium-sized and larger
companies employ more people - otherwise they would by definition
not be medium-sized or larger companies, since the criteria normally
used for defining such companies in the type of study relevant to
cite such numbers is by number of employees, rather than by
turn-over (which personally, I would find to be a better and more
adequate measure of company size any day). <br><div>
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best regards,<br>
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Amelia<br>
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