Olfa Frini

Olfa Frini

Associate Professor, Higher Institute of Accounting and Business Administration, Manouba University Tunisia

Olfa Frini is an Associate Professor at Higher Institute of Accounting and Business Administration (Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises) ISCAE, Manouba University, Tunisia. She has been a research associate at ERF since 2016 and a Member of the Economics and Business Strategies (ECSTRA) Laboratory, IHEC, Carthage University, Tunisia, since October 2017. Her current research focuses on Economic population ageing impacts, Family network and fertility behavior, and sequential regulation of fertility. She is an author of two microeconomics books and of several published articles under the topics of labor and human development, demographic economics, and economics of population ageing.

Areas of Interest:

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Household Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Labor and Human Development
  • Economic Population Ageing Impacts

Education:

  • Accreditation to lead research (HDR) in Economics: Manouba University, Tunisia, 2019
  • PhD. in Economics Cergy-Pontoise, University France, 2010.
  • Diploma of Advanced Development Studies in Economics, Faculty de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, 1996.

Experience:

  • Associate professor in Economics, at Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises, ISCAE, Manouba University, Tunisia. Sep. 2020 - Present
  • Assistant Professor, Higher Institute of Accounting and Business Administration, Manouba University Tunisia, 2011-2019

Latest Publications:

  • 2021: “The relationship ageing of the population and saving in an unemployment context: Empirical evidence using an autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach”. AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC PAPERS. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8454.12195. Vol. 60, issue 1, March 2021: 98-121.
  • 2019: “Population age structure change and labour productivity: an evidence from Tunisia” Co-author Khoutem Ben Jedidia. The European Journal of Applied Economics, Vol.16, No.1, 2019.
  • 2018: “The age structure change of population and labour productivity impact” Coauthor Khoutem Ben Jedidia. Economics Bulletin Vol. 38 No. 4, 2018, :1831-1844
  • 2014: “The Familial Network Influence on Fertility Behaviour in Tunisia”; Journal of Economic and Social Research. Vol 16(1) 2014, 37-70 ISSN: 1302-1060.
A GMM Approach for An Explanation of the Fertility Change Upward in Tunisia

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October, 2020

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A GMM Approach for an Explanation of the Fertility Change Upward in Tunisia

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August, 2020

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