Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light … larger firms that exhibit superior productivity performance but do not expand employment much, and small firms that absorb …

firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design … collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider range of firms within an industry. Higher dispersion in productivity … likely to decrease. We measure correlations between productivity variation and collective bargaining coverage in various …