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- ISSN: 18151973 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
Structural policies and productivity
Evidence from Portuguese firms
This paper provides empirical evidence on links between the productivity of Portuguese firms and a number of policy variables in Portugal. The analysis is based on a census of Portuguese manufacturing companies, covering more than 40,000 firms between 2006 and 2011. The results suggest that a number of these variables matter for firm performance, including the number of procedures required to start a business, a more extensive coverage of collective wage bargaining agreements, the tax burden, tax compliance costs and the number of procedures required to enforce a contract.
Keywords: firm-level analysis, structural policies, total factor productivity
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