@techreport{NBERw13233,
 title = "The Same Yet Different: Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries",
 author = "Richard B. Freeman and Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "13233",
 year = "2007",
 month = "July",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13233",
 abstract = {This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm.  The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2) qualitatively similar responses of workers to work practices across countries; 3) a strong link between the establishment average of employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a positive relation between average employee performance and average employee-management relations at the country level, but no relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices.},
}