Arbeitspapier

Product market competition and the labour market: Evidence from South Africa

We study the relationship between product market competition and labour market outcomes in South Africa. We combine firm-level data from tax records with individual-level data from the labour force survey. We estimate markups across sectors, and derive a measure of employment concentration in high-markup sectors across South African district municipalities. We then test whether individual labour market outcomes differ systematically in those district municipalities where employment is more concentrated in high-markup sectors. We find that higher employment concentration in high-markup sectors is associated with higher unemployment and lower likelihood of transitions from unemployment to employment. This is differentially more the case for non-White, lower educated, and young individuals. The relationship remains strong when conditioning on a rich set of individual- and district-level covariates, including employment concentration per se.

ISBN
978-92-9256-796-5
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/39

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
product market competition
tax data
unemployment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Amodio, Francesco
Di Maio, Michele
Li, Yifan
Piraino, Patrizio
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/796-5
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Amodio, Francesco
  • Di Maio, Michele
  • Li, Yifan
  • Piraino, Patrizio
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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