## Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 14, 2003_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 14, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827774.002

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### Analytical model of unemployment and main findings
- Outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon.
- Focuses on explaining the persistence and shape of unemployment (U-curve) in Mauritius.
- Emphasizes the role of skill composition and labor market frictions in generating unemployment patterns.

### Institutional imperfections and policy recommendations
- Analyzes central institutional imperfections that characterize the existing Mauritian labor market.
- Suggests possible reforms to address market rigidities and improve labor outcomes.
- Policy directions implied by the review include reforms related to:
  - collective bargaining arrangements,
  - labor market institutions,
  - measures to enhance job creation and adjust the skill premium,
  - interventions to improve outcomes for unskilled workers and skilled labor alignment.

### IMF projections, estimates, and data reviewed
- Reviews IMF projections and estimates on:
  - consolidated monetary survey,
  - summary accounts of the Bank of Mauritius,
  - commercial banks and offshore banks,
  - balance of payments,
  - summary of the tax systems and government finances,
  - sugar cultivation, yields and output,
  - real growth rates of expenditure on gross domestic product,
  - gross domestic product real growth rates by industrial origin and at current prices, 1998–2002,
  - and additional related macroeconomic and sectoral indicators.

### Publication metadata and key statistics
- Publication date: October 14, 2003
- Pages: 83
- Volume: 2003
- Issue: 320
- Series: Country Report No. 2003/320
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827774.002
- Stock No: 1MUSEA0022003
- ISBN: 9781451827774
- ISSN: 1934-7685

### Subjects and keywords
- Subjects: Labor, Labor force, Labor market institutions, Skilled labor, Unemployment, Wages
- Keywords: capital stock, collective bargaining, CR, Europe, ISCR, job creation, Labor force, labor market, Labor market institutions, production function, skill premium, Skilled labor, Unemployment, unemployment rate, unskilled worker, Wages

*Source: IMF Staff Country Reports — Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (October 14, 2003).*

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