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View article: How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes? The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan
How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes? The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan Open
Forced displacement has disrupted Syrian refugees' lives and exposed them to new communities and norms. This paper assesses how gender norms shape the lives of Syrian refugee adolescent girls in Jordan, using nationally representative data…
View article: Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022
Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022 Open
The rich, publicly available data of the SLMPS provide substantial opportunities for researchers to better understand the evolution of Sudan's labor market, economy, and society.
View article: How do small formal and informal firms in <scp>Egypt</scp> compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts
How do small formal and informal firms in <span>Egypt</span> compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts Open
Formalizing firms can potentially increase the tax base, expand safety and social protections for workers, create good jobs, and promote firm growth. However, the costs and processes of formality may be too challenging for some firms to be…
View article: Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Refugees face important barriers to participation in the formal market, which locks them in informal employment and makes them more vulnerable to shocks. Using data from Jordan, this paper compares the job finding and separation rates of S…
View article: Labour market dynamics and youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
Labour market dynamics and youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia Open
Although it is well‐established in the literature that unemployment is a labour market insertion problem in the Middle East and North Africa, the dynamics driving unemployment remain poorly understood. Using data from the Labor Market Pane…
View article: School-to-work transitions for egypt’s youth
School-to-work transitions for egypt’s youth Open
School-to-work transitions for egypt’s youth Ragui Assaad from Humphrey School of Public Affairs, at the University of Minnesota, argues that structural reforms result in increasingly difficult and unequal school-to-work transitions for Eg…
View article: Supporting ICT employment opportunities for women in Egypt
Supporting ICT employment opportunities for women in Egypt Open
Supporting ICT employment opportunities for women in Egypt Ragui Assaad and Irene Selwaness examine the increase of women in ICT jobs in Egypt, as well as gender disparities and the efforts to promote ICT employment growth. With the increa…
View article: Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market
Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market Open
Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market Ragui Assaad, Professor from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, explores the upcoming resumption of demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market and …
View article: Are labor markets in the Middle East and North Africa recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Are labor markets in the Middle East and North Africa recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic? Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only led to a health crisis, but also to economic and labor market crises. In an effort to avert the public health threat, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) initially put in place some of th…
View article: Evaluating the impact of housing market liberalization on the timing of marriage: Evidence from Egypt
Evaluating the impact of housing market liberalization on the timing of marriage: Evidence from Egypt Open
The transition to adulthood around the world is increasingly characterized by young people's desire to form independent households. Forming such households in Egypt requires buying or building a dwelling or obtaining a rental unit. Policie…
View article: Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2016
Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2016 Open
This paper introduces the 2016 wave of the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS). It is an essential reference for users of this innovative and valuable dataset, which adds to the growing series of labor market panel surveys (LMPSs) pro…
View article: Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018
Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018 Open
This paper introduces the 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), previously fielded in 1998, 2006, and 2012. The ELMPS has already become the primary source of data for a large number of scholarly and policy studies on t…
View article: Employment’s Role in Enabling and Constraining Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa
Employment’s Role in Enabling and Constraining Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa Open
We investigate the role of employment in enabling and constraining marriage for young men and women in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. Survival analysis methods for age at marriage are applied to comparable labor market panel surveys from Egyp…
View article: Explaining the MENA paradox: Rising educational attainment yet stagnant female labor force participation
Explaining the MENA paradox: Rising educational attainment yet stagnant female labor force participation Open
We argue that female labor force participation among educated women in four MENA countries - Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia -- is constrained by adverse developments in the structure of employment opportunities on the demand side. Spec…
View article: Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan Open
This paper investigates the impact of migration shocks on housing conditions and rental prices for the local population. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of Syrian refugees to Jordan in the wake of t…
View article: Women's Access to Market Opportunities in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa: Barriers, Opportunities and Policy Challenges
Women's Access to Market Opportunities in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa: Barriers, Opportunities and Policy Challenges Open
This report builds on the contributions to a workshop organised by the International Department and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) in collaboration with Ashoka University (India) and the…
View article: The Evolution of Labor Supply in Egypt from 1988-2018: A Gendered Analysis
The Evolution of Labor Supply in Egypt from 1988-2018: A Gendered Analysis Open
This paper investigates the character of labor supply and especially female labor force participation in Egypt and its evolution over the thirty-year span from 1988 to 2018 using various waves of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey. The pa…
View article: Public employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Public employment in the Middle East and North Africa Open
Public sector hiring has been an essential component of the social bargains that have maintained political stability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As these bargains eroded, public sector workforces contracted in relative term…
View article: Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan
Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan Open
The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset t…
View article: Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics
Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics Open
There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper, we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and panel survey data in Egypt, in …
View article: Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics
Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics Open
There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper, we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and panel survey data in Egypt, in …
View article: Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation
Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation Open
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, a phenomenon that has come to be known …
View article: The Role of Housing Markets in the Timing of Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
The Role of Housing Markets in the Timing of Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia Open
The transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is increasingly characterized by young people’s desire to form independent, nuclear households. Forming such households requires either buying or building a dwelling or…