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Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in MozambiqueInternal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country...
Internal migration Migration MozambiqueWorking Paper
The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in MaputoInformal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance...
COVID-19 Informal UrbanWorking Paper
Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in MozambiqueThis study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and children’s nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique...
COVID-19 Food Child nutritionWorking Paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionWorking Paper
The evolution of inequality in Mozambique: 1996/97–2019/20After decades of war, ending in 1992, Mozambique embarked on a path of sustained economic growth and substantial poverty reduction...
Inequality Consumption Spatial inequalityPresentation
MOZMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection WeekThe Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 21-27 November 2022. During the week, on 25 November, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...
Journal Article
Can information correct optimistic wage expectations?: Evidence from Mozambican job-seekersForward-looking expectations are central to job search but often inaccurate. To test whether public information can help correct beliefs, we embed an experiment in a longitudinal survey of Mozambican graduates...
Wage expectation Information HeuristicsWorking Paper
Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers: Evidence from COVID-19Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers)...
COVID-19 Digital labour platforms Labour marketSeminar
CEEG Seminar Series: Economic growth of Mozambique and its interaction with the environmentOn Wednesday 24 August 2022, Mônica Magaua, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), will present her recent study on the economic growth in Mozambique and its interaction with the environment. The...
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CEEG Seminar Series: The role of mobile money in reducing economic inequality in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 10 August 2022, Moisés Siúta, PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, will present his recent study on the role of mobile money in reducing economic inequality in Mozambique. The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar...
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What drove the profitability of colonial firms?: Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920–74)The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions...
Mozambique Sugarcane Forced labourWorking Paper
Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaCan digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets?...
Digital labour platforms Job search Search frictionsJournal Article
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityJournal Article
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approachThis study assesses the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique. We use a social accounting matrix multiplier analysis to estimate the effects of the pandemic on the economy...
COVID-19 Multiplier analysis Social Accounting MatrixWorking Paper
Health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique with special reference to leprosyThe subject of this paper is health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique, with special reference to leprosy...
Health Ethnic inequality MozambiqueSeminar
Economic development and institutions – perceptions and bottlenecksOn 15 March 2022, the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) organizes an event launching a cycle of debates on institutional performance and economic development in Mozambique. The event, entitled ‘ Economic...