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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275360
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259834
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Social protection, food security and nutrition in six African countries
Devereux, Stephen; Nzabamwita, Jonas - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173269
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Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique
Gradín, Carlos - 2024
In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to its secondary role in the earliest years. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015076273
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State capability and prospects for close co-ordination : considerations for industrial policy in Africa
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2015
Recent research highlights the considerable potential of industrial policy to support structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Given the importance of the state in industrial policy, this paper considers the implications for these discussions of recent work on state fragility. It argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496110
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Skills in African labor markets and implications for migration to Europe
Backhaus, Andreas - 2020
representative surveys from Ghana and Kenya to shed light on the quality and distribution of skills in the labor markets of these … countries. Skills in both countries are found to be unevenly distributed, with significant parts of the labor force being … essentially unskilled. Similarly designed surveys from France, Germany, and the UK further allow comparing skills and formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219349
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Building resilience now and for the future : adolescent skills to address global challenges L: editorial
D'Angelo, Sophia - In: Development policy review 40 (2022), pp. 1-9
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Development as diffusion : manufacturing productivity and sub-Saharan Africa's missing middle
Gelb, Alan; Meyer, Christian J.; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2014
We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242043
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Mozambique's industrialization
Sousa Cruz, António; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, … - 2014
than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343221
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The costs and benefits of formalization for firms: A mixed-methods study on Mozambique
Berkel, Hanna - 2018
informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146456