Good business practices improve productivity in Myanmar's manufacturing sector: Evidence from two matched employer-employee surveys

Paolo Falco, Henrik Hansen, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifkovic

No wp-2021-45, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We look into the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar. The data show that micro, small, and medium-size enterprises in Myanmar typically do only a few modern business practices. Even so, through estimates of value-added functions and labour demand relations we find a positive and economically important association between business practices and productivity. The results are confirmed when we utilize employer-employee information to estimate Mincer-type wage regressions.

Keywords: Business; Management; Productivity; Myanmar; Small and medium enterprises; Firm behaviour; Manufacturing firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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