Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects

Anmar Pretorius, Carli Bezuidenhout, Marianne Matthee and Derick Blaauw

No wp-2019-75, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In South Africa, the manufacturing sector—important for growth and employment creation—has shown declining growth, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of offshoring in South Africa, using firm- and employer-employee-level data to disentangle its impact on the labour market in terms of capital- and labour-intensive industries and skilled and unskilled workers.

Keywords: Offshoring; Firm-level data; Linked employer-employee data; Employment; Skills; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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