Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity … Uganda Business Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew … particular, the paper estimates that about one-fifth of the aggregate growth in labor productivity between the two years …

dimensions coincided with significant growth in aggregate labor productivity. However, in and of itself, the same reallocation … could only have held back, rather than aid, the observed productivity gains. This was because labor was more productive … commercial agriculture mainly to microenterprises in retail trade. In addition, the sectoral reallocation of labor on these two …

This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Peru?s regions (?departments?) during 2002-12. Given … the large differences in labor productivity across the regions of Peru, such convergence has the potential to raise … aggregate productivity and incomes, and also reduce regional inequalities. The paper finds that labor productivity in the …

sector that complements earlier work on manufacturing. The analysis shows that labor plays a fundamental role for …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

The reallocation of resources from low- to high-productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains. The … paper uses data from the Malaysian manufacturing census to measure the country's hypothetical productivity gains when moving … census periods in 2000, 2005, and 2010 (the most recent available), the productivity gaps appear to have somewhat widened …

productivity (TFP) gain resulting from their removal. Market distortions in the manufacturing sector in Morocco are higher compared …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total …This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …

This paper assesses the effects of selected structural reforms on labor productivity growth for 37 developing countries … Arrangements data set and firm-level productivity from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. The paper highlights the following … -- significantly improve productivity at the firm level. Interestingly, real sector reforms have the most sizable effects on firms …