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The Sectoral Employment Intensity Of Growth In Morocco: A Pooled Mean Group Approach

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  • EL HAMADI Youssef
  • ABDOUNI Abdeljabbar
  • BOUAOUZ Karima

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Inclusive growth has become a major concern for economies, especially with the growing phenomenon of jobless growth. Indeed, assessing sector’s potential for job creation is a crucial step in any policy that aims to an economic growth with high job creation. In this work, our purpose is to determine empirically the elasticity of employment at sectoral level in Morocco over the period 1970-2012. Using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator based on an error-correction model, the study reveals the existence of a long-run relationship between growth and employment. This relationship is supported mainly by the manufacturing and construction sectors as well as trade and transport.

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  • EL HAMADI Youssef & ABDOUNI Abdeljabbar & BOUAOUZ Karima, 2017. "The Sectoral Employment Intensity Of Growth In Morocco: A Pooled Mean Group Approach," Applied Econometrics and International Development, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 17(2), pages 87-98.
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    Keywords

    Employment elasticity of growth; Sectoral; Pooled Mean Group.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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