02043cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019509 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498325905 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept. Morocco : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This Selected Issues paper studies the potential for well-sequenced labor and product market reforms to play a more important role in promoting growth and job creation in Morocco. A Dynamic General Equilibrium model is used to assess the macroeconomic effects of different reform scenarios (isolated, coordinated, or sequenced) that reduce hiring costs and/or firms' entry costs in the presence of a large informal sector. The paper highlights that reforms are most effective if executed in a coordinated fashion, as implementing simultaneous reforms in the labor and product markets could add about 2.5 percent of gross domestic product growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 percentage points after five years. If reforms are to be introduced sequentially, due for instance to capacity or political economy constraints, starting with product market reforms is more effective in boosting output in the short-run while starting with labor market reforms would reduce unemployment faster. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2019/231 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2019/231/002.2019.issue-231-en.xml IMF e-Library