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Advanced Training in Economic Analysis and Management - Understanding Labor Market

From

02
9:00 am January 2017

To

06
5:00 pm January 2017

OCP Policy Center, Rabat

This course aims to provide a thorough cross-country look at the functioning of labor markets. The goal is to provide participants with the basic tools and knowledge needed to help them assess how labor markets in Morocco and MENA Function relative to a peer group of countries.

Objectives :

Understanding:
• The systematic analysis of the links between unemployment and real GDP for over 80 countries;
• How do labor market policies and the design of labor market institutions affect unemployment and job creation?
• What is the role of migration as a mechanism for labor market adjustment in advanced / emerging economies; what are the welfare implications of migration (“brain drain” issues)?
• What role does opening up to trade play in labor market outcomes, including unemployment vary across countries;
• How does youth unemployment vary across countries? What strategies work to encourage greater inclusion of youth in the labor market?

 

Speakers
Prakash Loungani
Senior Fellow
Prakash Loungani is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South as well as Advisor in the IMF’s Research Department and Co-Chair of the IMF’s group on Jobs and Growth. His research focuses on Labour Markets, Macroeconomics, and Energy. He is also an adjunct Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Business, where he has taught in the Executive MBA program for the past 15 years. During 2013-14, he was on the World Economic Forum’s council on employment issues. His academic work has been published in top-tier journals and the citations to this work place him among the top 5% of economists worldwide. He was the co-author of the IMF’s background paper for the ILO-IMF conference in Oslo on tackling unemployment. More recently, he is the co-author ...