Growth Estimates for Labor Productivity and Employment, Firm-Level Tanzania (2008–2016) and Ethiopia (1996–2017).

Source: Authors’ analysis based on the Tanzanian panel dataset for the period 2008–2016 from repeated years of the Annual Survey of Industrial Production (ASIP) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics in Tanzania, and the Ethiopian panel dataset for the period 1996–2017 from repeated years of the Large and Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries Survey (LMSM) conducted by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia (CSA 2001, 2004, 2008, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c). Both Tanzanian and Ethiopian panel datasets were created by the authors.

Notes: The period covered for Tanzania is 2008–2016 and for Ethiopia is 1996–2017. This figure presents the estimated growth rates from within-firm regressions of ln(value added per worker) and ln(employment) on a year trend and with interactions of the year trend and firm group of interest—large firms, exporters, foreign firms, and public firms. A small firm is defined as having an average of 10–49 workers, and a large firm is defined as having 50 + workers, based on average employment over the entire period observed. For sector-level growth, the analysis considers growth in the entire sample and in the sample of small firms and large firms separately. For Ethiopia, the study also presents results from the sector-level growth regressions with SSI data representing firms with < 10 workers.