Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks, and Jobless Growth : Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
During the past 20 years, Morocco has implemented a wide range of macroeconomic, social, and labor market reforms that have delivered in terms of growth of gross domestic product and household welfare. Yet, these positive developments are not refle...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19189323/labor-mobility-economic-shocks-jobless-growth-evidence-panel-data-morocco http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17277 |
| Summary: | During the past 20 years, Morocco has
implemented a wide range of macroeconomic, social, and labor
market reforms that have delivered in terms of growth of
gross domestic product and household welfare. Yet, these
positive developments are not reflected by the main labor
market indicators, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in
developed and developing economies alike and labeled as
"jobless growth." For the first time for Morocco,
this paper uses quarterly panel data to investigate the
question of labor mobility in an effort to determine whether
people have moved to better sectors and jobs. The results
point to significant labor mobility between labor statuses
with quite distinct features across population groups. All
groups experience some form of labor market mobility every
quarter and women are as mobile as men. However, the
transitions that women experience are very different from
the transitions than men experience and women's
performance is worse than men s performance in almost all
aspects of labor mobility. |
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