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
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978-92-9256-796-5
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/39
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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product market competition
tax data
unemployment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Amodio, Francesco
Di Maio, Michele
Li, Yifan
Piraino, Patrizio
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Helsinki
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/796-5
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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