Labour productivity in state-owned enterprises

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In the aftermath of the Global and Financial Crisis (GFC), between 2013 and 2015, the Portuguese government revoked four holidays for both public sector and private employees. We test whether the revocation had an effect on labour productivity in State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Portugal. Moreover, we also study whether such effects are different taking into account the SOEs managed by the Central Government or the Local and Regional Governments. Our results show that revocation of holidays did not impact labour productivity for either central or local and regional government managed SOEs. Though revocation of holidays espoused to improve productivity, the policy seems to have served a ceremonial purpose, but not an economic one.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EconPol Working Paper ; No. 45

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Other ; Public Sector Labor Markets ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy ; Labor Standards: Other ; Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
• Subject: labour productivity ; state-owned enterprises ; central government ; panel data ; Portugal

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Afonso, António ; Guedes, Maria João ; Patel, Pankaj
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/221805
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET