What Does South Africa's Pattern of Trade Say About its Labor Markets? /

This paper examines the factor intensity of South Africa's trade. The conclusion is that South Africa is revealed though its trade pattern to be capital abundant (relative to labor). Surprisingly, this result holds especially for South Africa's trade with its high income partners, which sh...

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প্রধান লেখক: Subramanian, Arvind
অন্যান্য লেখক: Alleyne, Trevor
বিন্যাস: পত্রিকা
ভাষা:English
প্রকাশিত: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
মালা:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/148
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a This paper examines the factor intensity of South Africa's trade. The conclusion is that South Africa is revealed though its trade pattern to be capital abundant (relative to labor). Surprisingly, this result holds especially for South Africa's trade with its high income partners, which should presumably have been more capital-rich than South Africa. Moreover, this revealed capital intensity of South African production was not reversed during the 1990s after the dismantling of apartheid. This favoring of capital use, against the background of high and rising under-utilization of the country's labor resources, raises questions about the functioning of South Africa's labor market institutions. 
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