Conference Paper
Is MENA’s Rural Youth Employment Vulnerable to Climate Change?
No.
ERF29AC_133
Publisher
ERF
Date
May, 2023
The jobless economic growth that a number of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have been going through, translated into slow rate of job creation in the public and private formal sector pushed the youth to either exit the labor market or to accept more precarious and vulnerable jobs. This paper goes beyond studying the labor market performance by analyzing the unemployed and out of labor force into studying employment vulnerability. The study combines the impact of socioeconomic variables in addition to climate change to understand the determinants of vulnerable employment and economic inactivity among rural youth of the MENA countries. We combine data from the Integrated Labor Market Panel Surveys (ILMPS) and geographically gridded daily measures of climate change. Our results show the persistence of employment vulnerability and economic inactivity among youth with a stronger impact on rural youth. Changes in temperature show a significant impact on labor market inactivity among MENA youth.
Authors
Rahma Ali
Statistical Researcher
Authors
Yasmine Abdelfattah
Assistant Professor of Statistics, School of Business...
Authors
Dina Abdel Fattah
Assistant Professor and Interim Chair, Department of...
Research Fellows
Hala Abou-Ali
Professor of Economics and Chair of the...