Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014

Paraguay has achieved positive employment outcomes over the last decade, reflecting more jobs and improved average job quality, which together contributed to significant poverty reduction. Firms played a major role in creating these jobs, especiall...

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Main Authors:	Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth, Scutaru, Adrian
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS REGULATION FIRM PRODUCTIVITY FIRM PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIVITY FIRM SIZE WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/Firm-Productivity-and-Employment-in-Paraguay-2010-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30610

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spelling	okr-10986-306102021-09-17T05:12:33Z Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014 Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth Scutaru, Adrian LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS REGULATION FIRM PRODUCTIVITY FIRM PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIVITY FIRM SIZE WAGES Paraguay has achieved positive employment outcomes over the last decade, reflecting more jobs and improved average job quality, which together contributed to significant poverty reduction. Firms played a major role in creating these jobs, especially formal jobs. It is important to understand how firm performance has translated into employment, the nature of the resulting jobs, and the factors affecting these outcomes. Using firm-level datasets, this analysis explores the characteristics of firms that are growing or stagnating; the sectors into which new firms are entering or incumbent firms are expanding their operations; and the factors that may be helping or hindering firms to enter, expand, or increase their productivity. High rates of informality and evasion create a challenging private sector environment for firms, but even among formal firms, the prevailing structure is characterized by micro-firms that lack scale economies, are concentrated in non-tradables, have generally low productivity levels, and rely on unskilled employment. The analysis also finds a pervasive duality between micro-sized low-productivity firms on one end, and a small number of highly productive firms in concentrated markets on the other end. These results imply some important challenges for the continued development of a healthy, dynamic and inclusive private sector. 2018-10-24T19:36:13Z 2018-10-24T19:36:13Z 2018-09-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/Firm-Productivity-and-Employment-in-Paraguay-2010-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30610 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 19 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Paraguay
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description	Paraguay has achieved positive employment outcomes over the last decade, reflecting more jobs and improved average job quality, which together contributed to significant poverty reduction. Firms played a major role in creating these jobs, especially formal jobs. It is important to understand how firm performance has translated into employment, the nature of the resulting jobs, and the factors affecting these outcomes. Using firm-level datasets, this analysis explores the characteristics of firms that are growing or stagnating; the sectors into which new firms are entering or incumbent firms are expanding their operations; and the factors that may be helping or hindering firms to enter, expand, or increase their productivity. High rates of informality and evasion create a challenging private sector environment for firms, but even among formal firms, the prevailing structure is characterized by micro-firms that lack scale economies, are concentrated in non-tradables, have generally low productivity levels, and rely on unskilled employment. The analysis also finds a pervasive duality between micro-sized low-productivity firms on one end, and a small number of highly productive firms in concentrated markets on the other end. These results imply some important challenges for the continued development of a healthy, dynamic and inclusive private sector.
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author	Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth Scutaru, Adrian
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title	Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
title_short	Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
title_full	Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
title_fullStr	Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
title_full_unstemmed	Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
title_sort	firm productivity and employment in paraguay 2010-2014
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/Firm-Productivity-and-Employment-in-Paraguay-2010-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30610
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Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014

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