Migration impact on Moroccan unemployment: a static computable general equilibrium analysis

Fida Karam () and Bernard Decaluwe ()

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

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

Keywords: Imperfect labor market; migration; computable general equilibrium model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 D92 F0 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2008-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Working Paper: Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment: a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis (2008)
Working Paper: Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment: a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis (2008)
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