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Unravelling the Puzzle of Low Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
That women’s labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been consistently low... Read More
Testing of Persistence in Firm Entry by Size, Sector, and Location: Case of Iran
This paper aims to investigate the stationary properties of entrepreneurship capital in the Iranian business... Read More
Do Capital Flows Cause (De)-Industrialization?
This paper aims to investigate the effect of capital flows on manufacturing in advanced (ADV),... Read More
False Negatives: Earnings Underreporting, Tax Overreporting in Surveys Worldwide
Household survey incomes are subject to misreporting and measurement issues biasing the static and dynamic... Read More
Finance-Growth Nexus in Time of Covid-19 Lockdown: Case of Iranian MSMES
This paper examines the relationship between access to finance and financial constraint to growth in... Read More
Robots, Employment and Wages: Evidence from Turkish Labor Markets
In recent years, effects of automation on labor market were outpaced due to the widespread... Read More
Women’s Economic Empowerment in Sudan: Assets and Agency
This paper investigates women’s economic empowerment in Sudan, with a particular focus on their agency... Read More
Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Algeria and Tunisia Using the Counting Based Approach and Bayesian Networks Classifiers
This paper assesses levels and trends in vulnerability to multidimensional poverty for two different years... Read More
Food Insecurity: The Role of Income Instability and Social Transfers in Tunisia During Covid-19
In this study, we assess the implications of COVID-19 shocks on household income, food security,... Read More