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How Flexible are Small Firms? An Analysis on the Determinants of Flexibility
Although the standard microeconomic analysis is usually based on the assumption of the existence of... Read More
Ownership Structure and Bank Performance: Evidence From The Middle East and North Africa
This paper makes a strong contribution to business literature by investigating the effects of organizational... Read More
Employment Effects of Productivity Improvement and Migration of Skills Workers
This paper studies the employment of unskilled labor effects on skilled labor productivity improvements, alternatively... Read More
Financial Sector Policy and Poverty Reduction in Sudan
This paper examines the structure and performance of the financial sector in Sudan and its... Read More
Maghreb Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Morocco’s Towns
Using data from national-level households survey, this study seeks to fill a gap in the... Read More
The Role of Housing Markets in the Timing of Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
The transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is increasingly characterized... Read More
Employment’s Role in Enabling and Constraining Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa
This paper makes use of a series of comparable surveys to investigate the role of... Read More
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Egypt: Does Women’s Empowerment Lead to Greater Investments in Children?
This paper presents new empirical evidence from Egypt on the existence of intrahousehold allocation bias.... Read More