Certifiable management standards, labor productivity, and worker wages: Evidence from the food sector in Vietnam

Food production and trade have become inseparable from requirements about product quality safety, as well social environmental aspects of processes. To demonstrate compliance with these requirements, firms adopt voluntary private certifiable management standards (CMS). How affect trade, organizational performance, employee outcomes has an area active research in the last decade. This paper analyses how labor productivity wages using a 3-year panel small medium food sector Vietnam covering period 2010–2014. Even though prevalence CMS sample is low, results show that improve both wages. However, difference size wage premiums attributable to not significant. implies can be useful practice for improving firm when combined fair compensation human resources. The findings are important lower-income countries facing low rates adoption evolving consumer preferences increasingly attuned issues quality, risks. robust several specification changes estimation methods, including fixed effects, control function, instrumental variable approach, which take endogeneity certification into account. [EconLit Citations: L66, D22, J4, J81, O12].