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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
Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach
The aim of this paper is to measure the vulnerability of multidimensional poverty in Tunisia. ... read more
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Education is a key means to integrate refugee populations into their host countries, as well ... read more
Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence
A large number of studies on the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve for MENA ... read more
The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016
In this paper, we analyze the structure of employment and job creation in Jordan over ... read more
Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey
Using a discrete choice random utility model and unique data from a nationwide consumer survey, ... read more
The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA
Entrepreneurship is promoted by government policies and international agencies as a solution to high rates ... read more
