This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa, and whether firms investing in capabilities development are more resilient to …

, we argue that foreign direct investment can stimulate export upgrading in manufacturing firms. We find that the level of …

This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since … effects on manufacturing industry that were envisaged to flow from trade policy reforms, including effects on mark …

trajectory. To identify the manufacturing sub-sectors that are most vulnerable to this crises, we use the input-output matrices …-constructed energy vulnerability index in a flexible empirical framework to examine the effect of the electricity crises on manufacturing … sector jobs in the country. We find that energy vulnerability has a high degree of heterogeneity across manufacturing sub …

capabilities on product upgrading in Indian manufacturing firms participating in global value chains. Empirical analysis is … undertaken on a panel of global value chain manufacturing firms in the period 2001-15, using the methodology of system …

is examined through changes across three variables: changes in manufacturing labour productivity, manufacturing … digitalization has a positive impact on structural change and manufacturing labour productivity but a negative impact on … manufacturing employment share, indicating a reallocation of labour from the agricultural sector into services. Overall global value …

. This paper overcomes this by analysing a new dataset of the population of manufacturing firms that are matched to their …

The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally …-level tax administration data has made it possible to measure and analyse the productivity of manufacturing firms in South … in the South African manufacturing sector. We examine differences in the level and growth of productivity across …