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 …

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 …

study utilizes panel data of a random sample of 143 firms from the manufacturing SMEs sector in Greece. Regression analysis … manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); second, to examine the potential influence upon business growth and … convergence hypothesis among member states in EU. Indeed, factors found to influence significantly manufacturing SMEs growth in …

-durable manufacturing. In durables, this phenomenon primarily reflects a relatively higher share of unproductive firms in a recession. In …Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is …. In a boom, when the market price of this fixed input is high, only more productive firms enter and only more productive …

According to Gibrat' Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the … taking account of both the entry process and the role of survival/failure in reshaping a given population of firms over time …. It does so by focusing on the entire population of firms (including newborn ones) in the Italian Radio, TV …

, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products is possible, so we examine the size and duration of benefits to IP …, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP … hypothesis against the alternative of depletability, where innovative intensity relative to the size of the firm matters. The …

welfare changes to market structure characteristics using a sample of 232 U.S. manufacturing industries. Empirical results …