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The Impact of the Turkish Employment Subsidy Programs on Increasing the Level of Social Protection For Women
This paper investigates the impact of the employment subsidy program implemented in 2008 by Turkish... Read More
Do Pensions Reduce the Incentive to Work? Evidence From Egypt
In this study, we investigate the impact of the receipt of contributory and social pensions... Read More
The Role of Fiscal Policy in Fighting Poverty and Reducing Inequality in Iran: An Application of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Framework
This paper evaluates the role of fiscal system in Iran in reducing poverty and inequality.... Read More
Labor Market Effects of Pension Reform: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Model Applied to Tunisia
This paper develops an overlapping general equilibrium framework to capture the interactions among pension reform,... Read More
The Effect of Survivors’ Benefits on Poverty and Health Indicators of Women and Children in Widowed-Mother Households: A Turkish Case Study
Survivors' benefits are cash payments made by government to family members when a worker dies.... Read More
Does Microcredit Reduce Gender Gap in Employment? An Application of Decomposition Analysis to Egypt
In this paper, we examine the impact of microcredit on labor supply of men and... Read More
Inequality Decomposition in the Arab Region: Application to Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Tunisia
Economic inequality across socio-demographic groups in the Arab region is high and growing. This paper... Read More
Decomposing Welfare Inequality in Egypt and Tunisia: An Oaxaca-Blinder Based Approach
In order to understand the main drivers of welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia, the... Read More
Do International Remittances Affect the Performance of Labor Market in Jordan? An Empirical Investigation
The current study examines the effect of international remittances on labor supply decisions of women... Read More