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Global Value Chain Participation and Prospects for Local Upgrading in the Egyptian-Chinese Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone
This paper focuses on the global integration of economic zones for the movement of knowledge ... read more
The Nexus Between Business-Investment Climate and Firm Performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
Business and investment climate indicators are relations between the public and private sectors. They may ... read more
Sources of Heterogeneity in Labor Productivity and Total Factor Productivity in Egyptian Manufacturing
Egypt Ranking in the World Competitiveness Report deteriorated between 2004 and 2017. Boosting competitiveness requires ... read more
Youth Vulnerability in Egypt and Jordan: Dimensions and Determinants
Youth unemployment in the MENA region is the highest in the world, at over 40% ... read more
Are the Credit Rating Agencies Biased Against MENA Countries?
We investigate the claims on regional biases in the sovereign credit ratings assigned by Fitch ... read more
The Political Economy of Business Elites in Tunisia: Actors, Strategies and Identities
When the Tunisian government seized the assets of the Ben Ali clan in 2011, prosperous ... read more
Impact of Informal Job-search on Wages for University Graduates in Egypt and Jordan
This research examines the impact of informal job search on wage for university graduates on ... read more
State Business Relations and the Dynamics of Job Flows in Egypt and Turkey
This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the possible sources ... read more
Global Value Chains and Business Environment: Which Factors Do Really Matter?
This study attempts to assess the effect of business environment on the possibility of a ... read more
Productivity, Structural Change and Skills Dynamics in Tunisia and Turkey
This article explores the contribution of the structural change and the skill upgrading of the ... read more
A Multi-Dimensional Measure of Well-being among Youth: The Case of Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon
This paper develops a youth well-being index, which allows for the first time to expand ... read more
Price Synchronicity, Inter-Firm Networks, and Business Groups in the Middle East and North Africa
Business groups are an essential part of the political economy of almost all capitalist countries. ... read more
Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries
Resource reallocation from low to high productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains with ... read more
Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their ... read more
Social Security Entitlement in Maghreb Countries: Who is Excluded? Who is not Interested?
The issue of whether informal jobs are chosen voluntarily by workers or as a strategy ... read more
Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: The Youth Crisis
This paper combines micro-level and macro-level approaches into a unified empirical design to understand the ... read more
