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 …

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 …