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 GDP growth and household welfare. Yet, these positive developments are not reflected by the main labor market indicators, a phenomenon observed elsewhere i...

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Main Authors:	Verme, Paolo, Barry, Abdoul Gadiry, Guennouni, Jamal
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:	labor market unemployment employment labor force participation labor mobility
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23534

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spelling	okr-10986-235342021-04-23T14:04:15Z Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco Verme, Paolo Barry, Abdoul Gadiry Guennouni, Jamal labor market unemployment employment labor force participation labor mobility During the past 20 years, Morocco has implemented a wide range of macroeconomic, social and labor market reforms that have delivered in terms of GDP growth 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 in Morocco, this paper investigates the question of labor mobility using quarterly panel data in an effort to determine whether people have moved to better sectors and jobs. 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 that men experience and women's performance is worse than men's performance in almost all aspects of labor mobility. 2015-12-28T21:57:06Z 2015-12-28T21:57:06Z 2015-10-23 Journal Article Middle East Development Journal 1793-8120 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23534 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Morocco
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description	During the past 20 years, Morocco has implemented a wide range of macroeconomic, social and labor market reforms that have delivered in terms of GDP growth 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 in Morocco, this paper investigates the question of labor mobility using quarterly panel data in an effort to determine whether people have moved to better sectors and jobs. 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 that men experience and women's performance is worse than men's performance in almost all aspects of labor mobility.
format	Journal Article
author	Verme, Paolo Barry, Abdoul Gadiry Guennouni, Jamal
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title	Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
title_short	Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
title_full	Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
title_fullStr	Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco
title_sort	labor mobility, economic shocks and jobless growth evidence from panel data in morocco
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Labor Mobility, Economic Shocks and Jobless Growth Evidence from Panel Data in Morocco

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