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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
Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey
Using a discrete choice random utility model and unique data from a nationwide consumer survey,... Read More
The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA
Entrepreneurship is promoted by government policies and international agencies as a solution to high rates... Read More
Optimal Government Size and Economic Growth in Developing and MENA Countries: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis
This paper aims to investigate the optimal government size as well as its effect on... Read More