A fixação do salário mínimo em Moçambique: sua racionalidade e os seus efeitos no desenvolvimento econômico

Abstract

The minimum wage policy has a social character that aims to protect low-income workers and is a price that involves strong social and political interests that go beyond the field of the economy, obliging the establishment of a legal minimum to be practiced in the economy. This paper addresses the setting of the minimum wage in Mozambique: its rationality and its effects on economic development. In most developing countries, the important issues for policy analysts are the formation of wage rates for workers who do unskilled work, for workers who have no assets other than their own physical capacity, wages. in this market determine how far they can survive. The existence of a minimum wage in the economy allows the stimulus to the development of the economy, as it guarantees more incentives to workers and entrepreneurs. To analyze the effects of the minimum wage on economic development, an analysis of the possible impacts of the minimum wage on employment, poverty and inflation was used. The analysis focused on discussing the assumptions and transmission mechanisms through which the minimum wage policy can achieve employment, poverty and inflation and carried out a comparison of the various alternative criteria for setting the minimum wage in Mozambique. From the study carried out, it is concluded that the criterion for setting the minimum wage by region cannot be applied in the country, as this criterion can encourage the exodus of the workforce from regions whose salary is lower to those with relatively higher wages with repercussions negative effects on the economy and create regional development asymmetries.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)