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Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Betcherman, Gordon; Molini, Vasco

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1678-9_ov

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“…Morocco has experienced economic progress over the past 20 years. Income per capita doubled between 2000 and 2019, health and literacy outcomes improved, access to water and electricity increased, and poverty fell to one-third of its 2000 level (Lopez-Acevedo, Betcherman, Khellaf, and Molini 2021). Phosphate and agricultural exports, the boom in competitive services, and the rapidly modernizing industrial sector have kept Morocco’s growth stable and mostly above average for North African countries (African Union Commission and OECD 2018).…”

Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By 2020, the shares of employment had shifted to 34% for agriculture, 22% for industry, and 44% for services (Danish Trade Union Development Agency 2022). Despite these shifts, Morocco lags behind other middle-income countries in structural change in employment, given its remaining and relatively large share of agricultural employment (Lopez-Acevedo, Betcherman, et al 2021: 17).…”

Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their rough estimates indicated that approximately 200,000 Moroccans were moving into urban areas annually in the early 2000s (2010: 499). Between 2000 and 2019, urban population gains represented 97% of the total population increase in Morocco (Lopez-Acevedo, Betcherman, et al 2021: 18). Ultimately, although rural migrants initially “came to find jobs in the industrial sector,” as Puschmann concluded, their swelling numbers have generated “ominous signs of over-urbanization” including high urban unemployment and shantytowns (Puschmann 2011: 152).…”

Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco

Buehler¹,

Fabbe²,

Kyrkopoulou

2023

ILR Review

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Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data from two census waves and one migrant regularization wave, the authors examine Moroccan citizens’ labor market threat perceptions from this new migrant group. Consistent with findings from studies conducted in developed countries, less educated, poorer respondents express higher labor market threat perceptions. The authors also find evidence, however, that city dwellers and employed female Moroccans are the most likely to report threat perceptions, even after controlling for greater “exposure” to migrants. The article contributes to literatures on migration exposure and how rural–urban dynamics shape labor market threat perceptions in a developing country.

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Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Morocco’s Economy and Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

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