Understanding why North African economies are not growing as dynamically as they possibly could to generate enough jobs is a central question. Unemployment in the subregion remains relatively high level at 11.5 per cent in 2018. Moreover, the subregion is characterized by a high unemployment rate for the young people (25.4 per cent in 2014) and women (17.1 per cent in 2013), and low labour force participation (47.5 per cent in 2015, as compared to 62.8 per cent in the rest of the world). Campante and Chor (2013) argue that the wave of instability that affected the region in 2011 could partly be attributed to the labour market situation.
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