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Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment : a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

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  • Bernard Decaluwé

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    (Université Laval)

  • Fida Karam

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    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UP1 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, PSE - Paris School of Economics)

Abstract

Recently, much research interest is directed towards the impact of migration on the sending country. However, we think that this literature does not successfully analyse the effects of migration on unemployment and wage rates especially in urban areas. It studies the effect of one king of migration flow, mainly international migration, on labour market in the country of origin and shows that international migration is able to reduce the unemployment rate and/or raise the wage rates. However, it is common to find labour markets affected simultaneously by inflows and outflows of workers. Using a detailed CGE model applied to the Moroccan economy, we show that if we take simultaneously into account Moroccan emigration to the European Union, immigration from Sub-Saharan Africa into Moroccan urban areas and rural-urban migration, the impact on Moroccan urban labour market disaggregated by professional categories is ambiguous.

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Date of creation: Apr 2008
Publication status: Published in Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2008.52 - ISSN : 1955-611X. 2008
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Keywords: computable general equilibrium model; Imperfect labor market; migration; computable general equilibrium model.; Marché de travail imparfait; modèle d'équilibre général calculable.;

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