Formal-Informal Gap in Return to Schooling and Penalty to Education-Occupation Mismatch: A Comparative Study for Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine

This research project analyzes the return to schooling in formal and informal sectors. It analyzes how income penalties arising from the education-occupation mismatch in the formal sector differ from the informal sector. The research will compare these features for Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. The research tries to answer two questions: How large is the education-occupation mismatch in the formal and informal sectors? And how different are the income penalties from the education-occupation mismatch in the formal and informal sectors.