TY - BOOK AU - Silva,Thomas Awazu Pereira da TI - High and persistent skilled unemployment In Morocco: explaining it by skills mismatch U1 - 331.1378040964 23E PY - 2017/// CY - Rabat PB - Publications of The Policy Center for the New South KW - CHOMAGE KW - JEUNES DIPLOMES KW - MARCHE DU TRAVAIL KW - SYSTEME EDUCATIF KW - MAROC N1 - Research Paper - November 2017, RP-17/04; Bibliogr. p. 28-29 N2 - This paper sheds light on the increasing and persistent skilled unemployment in Morocco over the past decade - oscillating around 20% of total unemployment. It identifies and estimates the role and significance of a skill mismatch between Morocco's education system and its labor market, illustrated by the ratio between technical and general university degrees produced by the education system. The paper finds supporting evidence that a skill mismatch does play a significant role in explaining Morocco's increasing skilled unemployment in a context of on-going structural reforms UR - http://www.fondation.org.ma/dsp/index/a669663-23 ER -