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Skilled Migration and the Transfer of Institutional Norms
This paper examines the impact of international emigration on the evolution of the quality of... Read More
Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Economies: Lessons from Chile and Norway
Resource-rich economies in general, and Arab oil exporters in particular, are at a critical juncture,... Read More
Regime-Switching Behavior in the Conditional Volatility of MENA Stock Market Returns
The objective of this paper is to investigate the behavior of the time varying volatility... Read More
The Impact of Remittances on Education in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon
This paper uses micro data from three households’ surveys conducted in three neighboring countries in... Read More
Pro-Women Legal Reform in Morocco: Is Religion an Obstacle?
The question of the role of modern law in triggering social change is of particular... Read More
The School-to-Work Transition of Jordanian Youth
The paper aims at better understanding the school-to-work transition among the Jordanian youth using the... Read More
On Fuel Subsidies for Transportation Sector in Kuwait
The aim of this study is to estimate the demand for oil products in the... Read More
Oil Prices, External Income, and Growth: Lessons from Jordan
This paper extends the long-run growth model of Esfahani et al. (2009) to a labor... Read More
Equality of Opportunity in Educational Achievement in the Middle East and North Africa
This paper is an empirical investigation of inequality of education opportunities in the Middle East... Read More