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 …

agriculture sector, two questions merit attention. One, whether it is in fact MSMEs or large firms that have been significant … contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The …

We develop and structurally estimate a model of heterogeneous multiproduct firms that can be used to decompose the firm … variation in firm sales. We show that the imperfect substitutability of products within firms, and the fact that larger firms … on prices and sales, we find that variation in firm appeal and product scope explains at least four fifths of the …

We analyze monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous firms and financial frictions. Firms differ in … on the time-varying distribution of firms. Although a reduction in real rates increases misallocation in partial …-productivity firms relatively more than that of low-productivity ones, crowding out the latter and increasing TFP. We provide empirical …

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour … productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … communication had a positive but insignificant impact on firms' labour productivity. On the basis of these observations we make a …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … utilization. Resilience to violence differs widely across different types of employment within firms and across firms with … a negative impact on average white-collar wages at the firm level. Output elasticity of violence is also shown to be …

formalization and firm outcomes. Instead of applying a binary formality indicator, it constructs a conceptual framework that regards … informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are … effects of formalization. It suggests that the most informal firms do not benefit from formalization due to their underlying …