This article uses firm-level data from company income tax and customs declarations from South Africa to analyse the complementary relationship between direct access to imported intermediate inputs and firm exports in the manufacturing industry. There are two main findings. The first is on firm...

This paper uses firm-level data from company tax declarations to analyse the complementary relationship between direct access to imported intermediate inputs and manufacturing firm productivity in South Africa. We provide support for the hypothesis of firm learning by importing. Our results show...

We examine the impact of labor regulations on firm outcomes and explore their differential ef-fects on exporters. Building on a conceptual framework developed from standard theory and a detailed qualitative study of India’s apparel industry, our econometric analysis exploits...