Trade liberalisation and the skill composition of migrant flows
The case of Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fida Karam (0000-0002-3144-8006, Gulf University for Science & Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 445-464 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2010.547039 |
| OpenAlex | W2081620812 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Empirically, little is known about the effects of trade liberalisation on the skill composition of emigration flows in developing countries. The available computational literature has focused, for the most part, on United States-Mexico migration patterns after the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. More recent works have investigated the relation between trade liberalisation and emigration in Morocco, without looking to the impact of trade liberalisation on skilled and unskilled migration. This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation on the skill composition of migrant flows in Morocco. Because trade agreements involve substantial changes in prices, resource allocation and income, they also affect migration incentives, when migration is motivated by the wage differential between receiving and sending countries. Trade liberalisation will be problematic for an unskilled-labour abundant country like Morocco, if it gives incentives to skilled workers to move across borders. An appealing way of addressing this topic is to formulate a dynamic computable general equilibrium model that illustrates the transmission channels by which trade liberalisation affects local wages and migration incentives. The model is calibrated on the Moroccan Social Accounting Matrix of 2003. The results show that both the free trade agreement with the European Union and multilateral liberalisation reduce skilled and unskilled migration flows, still more pronounced in the multilateral case
Computable general equilibrium · Economics · Emigration · European union · Free trade · Geography · Incentive · International economics · International trade · Labour economics · Liberalization · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Wage · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Global trade and economics · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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Migration
Moroccan Migration Dynamics
An Introduction to the Wage Curve
Is international migration a cure for Moroccan unemployment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |