Michael Kilumelume

Data Developer

Michael Kilumelume is a Data Developer for the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme. His role entails making micro-level South African administrative data useable for policy-relevant research at the National Treasury Secure Data Facility (NTSDF) in Pretoria, South Africa.

He is an economist and a data enthusiast whose research interests lie in industrial organization and labour economics. Before assuming the Data Developer position, Michael worked as a Research Assistant/Consultant under the SA-TIED programme.

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Email kilumelume@wider.unu.edu

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    Working Paper
    Market power and merger control in South Africa

    We estimate structural, materials, and labour markups for the South African economy at the three-digit industry level for 2012–19. The fall in structural labour and materials markups found for the numerical majority of industries are generally...

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    Spillovers from extractive industries

    Extractive industries form an important part of the economy for many developing countries, but their impact on growth and welfare remains understudied. With global efforts to transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades...

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    Tariffs, productivity, and resource misallocation

    An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity firms to...

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    The guide to the CIT-IRP5 panel version 4.0

    This paper presents version 4.0 of the CIT-IRP5 firm-level panel dataset. Version 4.0 is the latest edition of the firm-level component of the combined administrative data using sources from the South African Revenue Service. We show that differences...

    Technical Note
    Identifying foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises

    The identification of foreign firms and South African multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the CIT-IRP5 panel has proved to be a challenge for many researchers. The CIT-IRP5 panel contains variables indicating different thresholds that determine...

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