Within-firm Labor Productivity across Countries: A Case Study

摘要: We use input and output data from the operations of a large international retail food chain to examine how various outlet characteristics, including differences in governance form at level, affect labor productivity both within across countries. find that execution quality, which we interpret as an additional produced by workers, has negative effect on our measure productivity, while age beyond first year operation, increases number experienced employees, do not have statistically significant larger order sizes average improve productivity. The is ambiguous, choice appears be correlated with unobserved country fixed effects. then cross-country regulations goes up intensity regulations, consistent firms holding relatively lower amounts countries more rigid regulations. estimate increase regulation 25th 75th percentile level leads reduction conditional demand about 12.4 percent, conservatively translates 1.5 2.6 percent. ∗Stephen M. Ross School Business, University Michigan, email: laf@umich.edu, jagadees@umich.edu. are grateful Sloan Foundation NBER for their generous support, Company officials shall remain nameless allowing us learn organization, providing carry out this research. also thank Kathryn Shaw, Richard Freeman, Amil Petrin, Jan Svejnar participants seminars International IO Conference (Northeastern University) Stanford comments, David Leibsohn, Eun-Hee Kim, Jon Plichta help data, Robert Picard his assistance. All remaining errors own.