Women’s changing participation in the Labor Force. A CGE Model applied to the Moroccan economy

Karim, Mohamed and Bouzahzah, Mohamed (2012): Women’s changing participation in the Labor Force. A CGE Model applied to the Moroccan economy.

Abstract

We examine, in this article, the effect, on the women’s participation in the labor market, of increasing commercial opening of the Moroccan economy (further to the Association Agreement with the European Union, the Agadir Agreement, etc.). To do this, we build a multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which differentiates the work of men and women. The model is then calibrated on real data of the Moroccan economy before being used for analytical purposes. It highlights an improvement of the employment demand of womens in the main exporting sectors in particular the agriculture, food-processing industry and that of the leather and textile industry. From the methodological point of view, an unconditional sensitivity analysis allows to give evidence of the robustness of the results.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Commercial opening, gender, labor market, computable general equilibrium model.
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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