“…In particular, the effect of firm size [23,24,60,64,70,71,87], industry membership [9,17,23,24,52,74,84], government ownership [41,59,70], and board independence [6,41,94] on employee-related disclosures has been analyzed by a high number of studies, which found that such factors are associated with the level or quality of employeerelated disclosures. Moreover, many other factors that influence environmental reporting also have an effect on the extent of employee-related disclosures.…”