Once NEET, Always NEET? A Synthetic Panel Approach to Analyze the Moroccan Labor Market
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population bet...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/152331589219064621/Once-NEET-Always-NEET-A-Synthetic-Panel-Approach-to-Analyze-the-Moroccan-Labor-Market http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33747 |
| Summary: | In many regions of the world, the
persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are
currently not in employment, education, or training is of
global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30
percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24
are currently not in employment, education, or training.
Drawing from various rounds of Moroccan labor force surveys,
this paper contributes to understanding the complex dynamics
of labor markets in developing countries. First, it
identifies the socioeconomic determinants of Morocco's
young population not in employment, education, or training.
Second, employing a synthetic panel methodology in the
context of labor market analysis, the paper describes how
the conditions of individuals in this group has changed over
time. One striking, and worrisome, pattern that emerges from
the 2010 synthetic panel data is that, even after 10 years,
a majority of the young population not in employment,
education, or training remained outside the labor market or
education, with very little chance of moving out of their
situation. Their chronic stagnancy confirms the powerful
effect that initial conditions have on determining young
people's future outcomes. |
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