Significant Market Effects
13 February 2009
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Unemployment rate stabilizes below 10%
Improvements for the Moukawalati program
How is the Moroccan job market performing during this period of crisis? The work of the Higher Council for Employment, held yesterday in Rabat, was an opportunity to review this issue in light of data available until the end of the third quarter of 2009. "Despite the economic crisis that has shaken several countries, the unemployment rate has fallen and stabilized at a reasonable level of less than 10% in 2009," immediately stressed Jamal Rhmani, Minister of Employment, during his opening address. Rhmani points out that this rate was 13.6% in 2000 (21.5% in urban areas) compared to 14.8% the previous year. For the Minister, this dynamic that has marked the job market is particularly due to the launch of several sectoral strategies within the framework of the new industrial policy through which the authorities aim to create nearly 220,000 jobs by 2015. And also thanks to the programs launched by the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (Anapec), through its three products Idmaj, Taehil and Moukawalati. For the first, 52,000 placements were made in 2009, representing a 13% increase compared to 2008. Another encouraging point was mentioned by the Minister concerning this program. "The results of an evaluation study of the latter showed that 83% of the beneficiaries of Idmaj contracts were permanently placed in the company where they completed their training and internship. And that 50% of young people not recruited in the first company will be hired by the second." According to this study, whose work was based on a sample of 7,200 contracts, 65% of those placed are declared by their employer to social security organizations. Still in the chapter of achievements, the Taehil program shows a performance of 21% in 2009 compared to the previous year with a number of beneficiaries amounting to 14,033. For the third product, Moukawalati, "we are beginning to see the fruits of the measures taken to relaunch this program, particularly after its extension to non-graduate candidates," says the Minister.
The number of companies created in 2009 amounts to 1,012 units out of a cumulative total since 2007 of 2,300 companies. This has allowed the creation of 8,000 jobs. For the year 2010, Anapec aims to achieve 55,000 placements in the Idmaj program and 15,000 qualifications under Taehil. Statistics relating to the labor market of emigrants were also reported by Rhmani. The number of foreign contracts signed in 2009 for the benefit of Moroccan workers amounts to 16,235. While the number of contracts with foreigners to work in Morocco was 9,378, including 5,509 renewals.
Published January 27, 2010
Posted online January 28, 2010
L’Economiste
Improvements for the Moukawalati program
How is the Moroccan job market performing during this period of crisis? The work of the Higher Council for Employment, held yesterday in Rabat, was an opportunity to review this issue in light of data available until the end of the third quarter of 2009. "Despite the economic crisis that has shaken several countries, the unemployment rate has fallen and stabilized at a reasonable level of less than 10% in 2009," immediately stressed Jamal Rhmani, Minister of Employment, during his opening address. Rhmani points out that this rate was 13.6% in 2000 (21.5% in urban areas) compared to 14.8% the previous year. For the Minister, this dynamic that has marked the job market is particularly due to the launch of several sectoral strategies within the framework of the new industrial policy through which the authorities aim to create nearly 220,000 jobs by 2015. And also thanks to the programs launched by the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (Anapec), through its three products Idmaj, Taehil and Moukawalati. For the first, 52,000 placements were made in 2009, representing a 13% increase compared to 2008. Another encouraging point was mentioned by the Minister concerning this program. "The results of an evaluation study of the latter showed that 83% of the beneficiaries of Idmaj contracts were permanently placed in the company where they completed their training and internship. And that 50% of young people not recruited in the first company will be hired by the second." According to this study, whose work was based on a sample of 7,200 contracts, 65% of those placed are declared by their employer to social security organizations. Still in the chapter of achievements, the Taehil program shows a performance of 21% in 2009 compared to the previous year with a number of beneficiaries amounting to 14,033. For the third product, Moukawalati, "we are beginning to see the fruits of the measures taken to relaunch this program, particularly after its extension to non-graduate candidates," says the Minister.
The number of companies created in 2009 amounts to 1,012 units out of a cumulative total since 2007 of 2,300 companies. This has allowed the creation of 8,000 jobs. For the year 2010, Anapec aims to achieve 55,000 placements in the Idmaj program and 15,000 qualifications under Taehil. Statistics relating to the labor market of emigrants were also reported by Rhmani. The number of foreign contracts signed in 2009 for the benefit of Moroccan workers amounts to 16,235. While the number of contracts with foreigners to work in Morocco was 9,378, including 5,509 renewals.
Published January 27, 2010
Posted online January 28, 2010
L’Economiste
