Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in Vietnam

No wp-2016-163, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: A rising number of firms from developing countries have adopted voluntary private standards in the last decade. This has become an area of active research, especially in terms of the impact of private standards on trade, organizational performance, and employee outcomes. This paper analyses how standards affect labour productivity of small and medium firms from the food sector in Vietnam. The results based on a 3-year panel show that the application of private standards improves labour productivity. These gains primarily occur to firms operating above a threshold labour-intensity level.

Keywords: Labour productivity; SMEs; Food industry and trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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