Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

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Lorenzo Caliendo

Yale University - School of Management

Giordano Mion

University of Sussex - Department of Economics; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Luca David Opromolla

Bank of Portugal; CEPR; UECE - Research Unit on Complexity in Economics

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

University of Chicago - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: December 23, 2015

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 Classification: D220, D240, L230, F160, J240, J310

Suggested Citation

Caliendo, Lorenzo and Mion, Giordano and Opromolla, Luca David and Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban A., Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms (December 23, 2015). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5678, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2727116 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2727116

Lorenzo Caliendo

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University of Sussex - Department of Economics ( email )

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Luca David Opromolla

Bank of Portugal ( email )

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Esteban A. Rossi-Hansberg

University of Chicago - Department of Economics

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