 Productivity and Organization in Portuguese FirmsLorenzo Caliendo, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Giordano Mion and Luca David Opromolla No 1574, 2019 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics 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 Örm production quantity and input data for Portuguese Örms, 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, quantitybased productivity increases by about 8%, while revenue-based productivity drops by around 7%. 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. Date: 2019 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed019:1574 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 2019 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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