Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/221805 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EconPol Working Paper No. 45
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
labour productivity
state-owned enterprises
central government
panel data
Portugal
JEL: 
C23
H79
J45
J58
J89
L32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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