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The Impact of the Employment Protection Legislation Reform on the Labor Market’s Flexicurity in Morocco

Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences

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Title The Impact of the Employment Protection Legislation Reform on the Labor Market’s Flexicurity in Morocco
 
Creator TOUFIK, Saïd; Professor at the Mohammed V University of Rabat. Member of ERADIASS Research Committee
ARKHIS, Mohammed-Amine; PhD candidate in Labor Economics, Mohammed V University of Rabat
OUKHALLOU, Youssef; Corresponding author,PhD candidate in Financial Macroeconomics, Mohammed V University of Rabat
El BAGDADI, Saâd El Baghdadi; PhD candidate in Financial Macroeconomics, Mohammed V University of Rabat
 
Subject Labor Market; Flexicurity; Employment Protection.
K31; E24; J81.
 
Description Abstract. This paper uses the OECD’s methodology to build an Employment Protection Legislation index (EPL) for the Moroccan economy. In this framework, the main objective is to assess the impact of the new Labor Code’s provisions on the degree of flexicurity in the labor market. The paper also investigates the approximate influence of the EPL changes as regards to some employment-related variables. Our results show that after the 2004 Labor Code reform, the labor market’s flexibility level went down from 75 percent to 44 percent, as EPL became significantly stricter. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the new legislation, although it brought relatively strict restrictions on hiring and firing, generated a significant increase in dismissals during the three first years of its implementation. And unlike the buckle of conventional literature and several empirical findings, the unemployment rate actually dropped, allegedly backed-up by a solid GDP growth during the 2000’s.Keywords. Labor Market, Flexicurity, Employment Protection.JEL. K31, E24, J81.
 
Publisher Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences
 
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Date 2017-03-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/1174
10.1453/jsas.v4i1.1174
 
Source Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 4, No 1 (2017): March; 14-26
Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences; Vol 4, No 1 (2017): March; 14-26
2149-0406
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JSAS/article/view/1174/1229
 
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