Dancing on the grid: electricity crises, manufacturing energy vulnerability, and jobs in South Africa

Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis Korku Avenyo and Rex Asiama

No wp-2024-41, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: South Africa's current electricity crises have worsened, placing the country on an uncertain and turbulent economic trajectory. To identify the manufacturing sub-sectors that are most vulnerable to this crises, we use the input-output matrices for the period between 1993 and 2021 to develop a sub-sector energy vulnerability index. Second, we employ the self-constructed energy vulnerability index in a flexible empirical framework to examine the effect of the electricity crises on manufacturing sector jobs in the country.

Keywords: Electricity; Crisis; Energy; Vulnerability; Manufacturing; Jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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