United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity …Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

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 … lower than in the high-income countries. The productivity difference is robust and holds for firms of different sizes and …