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SUMMARY:PhD Public Defense - EMPLOYMENT\, TRANSITION AND EDUCATION RETURNS IN UGANDA
DESCRIPTION:PhD Public Defense for Mr.Ssebulime Kurayish (PhD in Economics). \nABSTRACT \nCreating adequate and sustainable employment opportunities as well as enabling a successful transition to work are critical goals of a functional and effective labour market. While education is recognized as a potential equalizer in employment and earnings distribution\, evidence from Uganda remains limited. This study addresses this gap by: (i) examining Uganda’s employment dynamics at national\, sectoral\, and sub-sector levels; (ii) identifying the drivers of school-to-work transition lengths\, and (iii) analyzing education returns at national and sub-national levels.  The study employs a mixed-methods econometric approach. First\, multivariate regression and autoregressive distributed lag models are used to assess the employment intensity of growth and sectoral employment shifts. Second\, standard hazard models identify the factors influencing school-to-work transition lengths. Finally\, Mincerian and pooled regression models\, augmented with the  Instrumental  Variable techniques\,  estimate the returns  to education.   The findings highlight persistent jobless growth at both national and sectoral levels\, weak employment intensity\, and limited sectoral employment shifts in Uganda. At the sector level\, Agriculture demonstrated the lowest employment intensity\, while sub-sectors like trade\, construction\, and manufacturing exhibited higher job creation potential.  Prolonged school-to-work transitions were attributed to Uganda’s constrained job creation capacity\, with technicians experiencing shorter unemployment spells compared to professionals. Education was found to significantly enhance earnings\, with wages increasing by 15% for each additional year of schooling and rising to 20.7% after accounting for endogeneity. However\, regional disparities in education returns highlighted economic inequalities in the country. The study concludes that the challenges faced by Uganda’s labour market necessitate urgent action and recommends the need for: targeted investment in employment-intensive sub-sectors to drive job creation; developing and launching a national campaign to promote technical and vocational education and training to align skills with market demands\, and improving education policies to reduce regional disparities. \nKey words: Employment; Transition; Education Returns; Mincerian\, Hazard Models. \n  \nSupervisors: Prof. Bbaale Edward and Assoc. Prof Okumu M. Ibrahim.
URL:https://bams.mak.ac.ug/event/phd-public-defense-employment-transition-and-education-returns-in-uganda/
LOCATION:Conference Hall\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Conference Room\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Kampala\, Uganda
CATEGORIES:PhD Defense
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SUMMARY:PhD Public Defense - INTERSECTORAL LINKAGES\, UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UGANDA
DESCRIPTION:The Dean School of School of Economics invites you the PhD Public defense for Mr. Mukoki James (PhD in Economics). \nAbstract \nThis study investigated inter-sectoral linkages\, the drivers of rapid services sector growth\, and the impact of sectoral growth patterns on the unemployment rate in Uganda. Based on the analysis multiplier model of the Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) 2009/10 and 2016/17\, the study finds that at an aggregate level\, the services sector had the highest multiplier effects (i.e.\, in terms of output\, GDP\, income\, and consumption) across both periods\, followed by agriculture and services sectors. That is to say that a 1 million income injection in the services sector led to a 3.13 million and 2.71 million shillings increase in output in 2009/10 and 2016/17\, respectively\, compared to only 1.61 and 1.87 million in the industrial sector. Investing in the services sector was more beneficial compared to other sectors. Also\, the services sector had the largest forward production linkages (1.32 points). Agriculture expansion was self-benefitting\, led to excess demand in the industrial sector\, and benefited more households in the central region and urban areas. Finally\, production technology was time dependent. Secondly\, the increasing role of the services sector warranted an investigation; we found that population expansion\, human capital index\, gross national expenditure\, and foreign direct investment are the major drivers of rapid services sector growth. In contrast\, GDP inflation hurts services sector growth. In addition\, producer and household services had the highest impact on economic growth. However\, household services drain the economy\, while business and producer services improve growth ceteris paribus. Lastly\, a positive shock in the agriculture and services sectors significantly reduced unemployment by 1% and 5.07%\, respectively. While a negative shock in the services sector significantly increases unemployment by 3.78%. Also\, a positive industrial sector shock lowered unemployment by 12.48%. The labor intensity analysis results showed that both the size and composition of sectoral growth affect unemployment level. \n  \nSupervisors: Prof. Hisali Eria & Dr. Mukisa Ibrahim \n  \n 
URL:https://bams.mak.ac.ug/event/phd-public-defense-intersectoral-linkages-unemployment-and-economic-growth-in-uganda/
LOCATION:Conference Hall\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Conference Room\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Kampala\, Uganda
CATEGORIES:PhD Defense
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SUMMARY:PHD Public Defence : FOREIGN AID INFLOW\, DOMESTIC SAVINGS\, FUNGIBILITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UGANDA
DESCRIPTION:The Dean School of School of Economics invites you the PhD Public defense for Ssemanda Patrick   (PhD in Economics). \nABSTRACT \n  \nUganda set an ambitious economic growth target of 8.2% per annum in order to achieve middle income status by 2040. Domestic Savings target was set at 35% but it has stagnated at 16.7%\, and revenue to GDP has remained below 12.5% compared to the target of 25%. These economic targets require very high economic growth to be achieved. Uganda has been receiving substantial foreign aid inflow\, but its contribution to achieve these economic targets remain unclear. This study examines the effects of the increased foreign aid inflow on economic growth\, gross domestic savings and assess whether fungibility occurred in Uganda.  The empirical models are estimated using time series data for the period 1970- 2020 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration.  Cointegration and error-correction modelling catered for the short run and the long-run effects\, consistent with growth models. The three empirical chapters focused on; investigating the relationship between foreign aid inflow and economic growth\, foreign aid inflow and domestic savings\, foreign aid inflow and fungibility in Uganda between 1970 and 2020. \n  \nResults show that foreign aid inflow significantly reduced economic growth in Uganda in the short run and long run. The domestic investment had positive and significant effect on growth in the short run\, while exports increased growth in the short and long run. The democracy index for previous periods\, and effective labour had a negatively effect on output in the short run. In the long-run\, however\, effective Labour force\, exports\, and democratic index was found to increase output in the long run. An increase in foreign aid inflow leads to a drop in domestic savings and crowds out domestic savings in the long run.  This is evidence suggests that foreign aid displaced gross domestic savings in the long-run but did not crowd out private investment in Uganda. Aid fungibility results showed that private investment was not crowded out. There was a reduction in tax revenue which could be attributed to weaknesses in the institution capacity and high poverty levels\, low tax base and weaknesses in the fiscal regulatory framework in Uganda to ensure the efficiency of tax collection. \nThese findings suggest that Uganda should promote strategies to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) since it was found to be the most important in complementing domestic savings to generate growth in the longrun. Interruption in aid flows resulted in economic volatility\, which in turn reduced investment and led to a slowdown in economic growth. \nSupervisors: \nProf. John Ddumba Ssentamu and\nProf. Matovu Fred. \n 
URL:https://bams.mak.ac.ug/event/phd-public-defence-foreign-aid-inflow-domestic-savings-fungibility-and-economic-growth-in-uganda/
LOCATION:Conference Hall\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Conference Room\, Block B\, CoBAMS\, Kampala\, Uganda
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