Using firm-level survey data on registered private firms collected by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper … compares the level of labor productivity in 22 upper-middle-income countries and 11 high-income countries for which comparable … data are available. The results show that labor productivity in the upper-middle-income countries is about 57.5 percent …

"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … 100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average …

of accessing external finance. What drives firms to improve their management practices? As elsewhere in the world, global …Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this paper finds that an … average firm in Croatia scores 0.532 on structured management practices, which is farther from the frontier (0.615 in the …

productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative data for South Africa. It is the first paper to benchmark employment and … productivity dynamics against various comparator countries for which similar analysis has been undertaken. The paper finds that … and exit is negligible. The static and dynamic productivity decompositions raise a concern that although productive …

resources, country institutions, and national culture on the survival and growth of private firms around the world during the … COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Follow-up Surveys on COVID-19 that cover 18,770 firms in 36 countries …