Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Luca David Opromolla and Lorenzo Caliendo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Giordano Mion and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Working Papers from Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department

Abstract: The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm production quantity and input data for Portuguese firms, we study the endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer, quantity based productivity increases by about 4%, while revenue-based productivity drops by more than 4%. Such a reorganization makes the firm more productive, but also increases the quantity produced to an extent that lowers the price charged by the firm and, as a result, its revenue-based productivity.

JEL-codes: D22 D24 F16 J24 J31 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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