Journal article
Educational expansion and shifting private returns to education

Sam Jones, Thomas Pave Sohnesen and Neda Trifković

We examine how returns to education have evolved in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and economic growth in Mozambique over the period 1996–2015. We show that private rates of return to education have declined at...

August 2023

Journal article
Employment mismatches drive expectational errors among Mozambican graduates

Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Gimelgo Xirinda

Biased beliefs about future labor-market earnings are commonplace. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduate work transitions in Mozambique, this study assesses the contribution of employment mismatches to a large positive gap between expected (ex...

August 2023

Journal article
Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden Mozambique

Eva-Maria Egger, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

Mozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden...

April 2023

Journal article
Africa’s lockdown dilemma

Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Ivan...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimize viral transmission without adversely affecting the poor. This study proposes an index of lockdown readiness, taking into account housing conditions...

January 2023

Working paper
Structural change in the Mozambique economy between 2007 and 2019

Dirk van Seventer and Finn Tarp

This study makes use of Mozambican social accounting matrices (SAMs) for the years 2007 and 2019, which we compare to uncover structural changes. Our findings reflect the significant short- and long-term challenges that Mozambican policy...

September 2023

Report
Report
Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms 2022
This report documents the main findings of the Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms 2022 (IIM 2022). The survey was implemented in 2022 under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme with the support from the...

July 2023

Journal article
Employment mismatches drive expectational errors among Mozambican graduates

Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Gimelgo Xirinda

Biased beliefs about future labor-market earnings are commonplace. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduate work transitions in Mozambique, this study assesses the contribution of employment mismatches to a large positive gap between expected (ex...

July 2023

Working paper
Migration out of poverty

Maimuna Ibraimo and Eva-Maria Egger

Internal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country. This study describes Mozambique’s most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three population censuses.

January 2023

Working paper
The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo

Nilifer Anaç, Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Ricardo...

Informal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these urban traders in...

December 2022

Working paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique

Jana Bischler, Eva-Maria Egger, Paul Jasper, Ivan...

In 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...

December 2022

Working paper
Documenting the 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Mozambique

Antonio S. Cruz, Cipriano Cláudio, Vincenzo...

This technical note describes how the 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique was updated. New Household Budget Survey data availability, changes in the economic structure as captured by the underlying Supply and Use Tables...

December 2022

Working paper
The evolution of inequality in Mozambique

Giulia Barletta, Maimuna Ibraimo, Vincenzo...

After decades of war, ending in 1992, Mozambique embarked on a path of sustained economic growth and substantial poverty reduction. However, these positive dynamics started to revert from 2015, with per capita growth rates getting...

December 2022

Journal article
Can information correct optimistic wage expectations?

Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos

Forward-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. We quantify responses of own-earning...

November 2022