.75. Consistent with the findings in other countries, better managed firms in Russia show stronger firm performance, measured as gross … 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 …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …