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Price Synchronicity, Inter-Firm Networks, and Business Groups in the Middle East and North Africa
Business groups are an essential part of the political economy of almost all capitalist countries.... Read More
Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries
Resource reallocation from low to high productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains with... Read More
Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their... Read More
Social Security Entitlement in Maghreb Countries: Who is Excluded? Who is not Interested?
The issue of whether informal jobs are chosen voluntarily by workers or as a strategy... Read More
Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: The Youth Crisis
This paper combines micro-level and macro-level approaches into a unified empirical design to understand the... Read More
Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach
The aim of this paper is to measure the vulnerability of multidimensional poverty in Tunisia.... Read More
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Education is a key means to integrate refugee populations into their host countries, as well... Read More
Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence
A large number of studies on the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve for MENA... Read More
The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016
In this paper, we analyze the structure of employment and job creation in Jordan over... Read More