Arbeitspapier
The South African manufacturing exporter story
Existing South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time. This paper overcomes this by analysing a new dataset of the population of manufacturing firms that are matched to their export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found internationally. Moreover, heterogeneity that exists within exporting is evident. Not only do exporters differ in terms of the amount exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm-level characteristics including productivity.
- ISBN
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978-92-9256-081-2
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/38
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Empirical Studies of Trade
- Subject
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heterogeneous firms
exports
productivity
firm-level data
multi-destination
multi-products
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Matthee, Marianne
Rankin, Neil
Naughtin, Tasha
Bezuidenhout, Carli
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/081-2
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Matthee, Marianne
- Rankin, Neil
- Naughtin, Tasha
- Bezuidenhout, Carli
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Time of origin
- 2016
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