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A Comprehensive Disaster Resilience Index for MENA Countries
Disaster resilience is a protective feature aimed at reducing the effects of natural disaster events... Read More
Refugee Exposure and Attitudes Toward Refugees in A Developing Country Context
There is a scarcity of evidence on how refugee exposure affects local attitudes in developing... Read More
Analyzing Labor Market Shifts in the Transition to Green Jobs: Mapping Egypt’s Green Jobs
The global shift toward green economies underscores the need to better understand and measure the... Read More
Does Global Value Chain Participation Lead to Economic Upgrading?
Despite extensive research on Global Value Chains (GVCs), there remains a notable lack of empirical... Read More
Inequality of Opportunity in Monthly Wages in the Jordanian Labor Market
This paper quantifies the inequalities of opportunities in monthly wages in the Jordanian labor market,... Read More
Food Insecurity and Gender in Turbulent Times: Evidence from New Data for Egypt
The Russian war in Ukraine led to significant disruptions in trade in cereals, especially wheat... Read More
Education-Occupation Mismatch Among Vocational Secondary and University Graduates in Egypt
There is a vast literature on conceptually formulating education-occupation mismatch and on measuring over- and... Read More
The Evolution of Social Protection in Egypt, 2006-2023
This paper examines the trends in social protection coverage in Egypt over the 2006-2023 period.... Read More
Unpaid Care Work in Egypt: Gender Gaps in Time Use
Using the most recent wave of Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey data from 2023, this... Read More