Human Resource Management Technology Diffusion Through Global Supply Chains: Productivity and Workplace Based Health Care

Drusilla K. Brown (), Thomas Downes (), Karen Nisa Eggleston () and Ratna Kumari

No 616, Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University from Department of Economics, Tufts University

Abstract: We examine the role that buyers play in helping vendors uncover productivity-enhancing labor management innovations. We report on a buyer-directed factory-based program targeting intestinal parasites and anemia in seven Bangalore apparel factories. Raw pre-post productivity comparisons were confounded by factory organizational changes that were implemented in anticipation of the termination of the MFA. Using a DDD estimator, treatment was found to increase individual productivity of anemic workers by 8 percent. The treatment program also reduced the probability that an anemic worker would leave the factory by 38 percent.

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Date: 2006
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