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Schooling Choices’ Responses to Labor Market Shocks: Evidence From a Natural Experiment
This paper uses the closure of Israeli labor market to examine the effect of a... Read More
Oil Revenues Shocks and Inequality in Iran
We study the responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas revenues... Read More
Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq
This paper examines the relationship between armed conflict intensity and child labor using household level... Read More
Does it Still Pay to Go to College in Egypt? Decomposition Analysis of Wage Differentials For College and Non-College Graduates
This paper analyzes the educational wage differentials among youth graduates in Egypt using a nationally... Read More
Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Arab Oil Exporters
The paper shows that central banks in Arab oil exporters are not independent. Low independence... Read More
Do More Productive Firms Pay Workers More? Evidence from Egypt
Theoretically, in perfectly competitive markets with full information, marginal productivity of labor and workers’ wages... Read More
Education of Jordanians: Outcomes in a Challenging Environment
This paper employs the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2010 and 2016 waves to investigate... Read More
Time Poverty in Egypt and Tunisia: Is There A Gender Gap?
This paper investigates the gender differences in time poverty in two MENA countries, particularly Egypt... Read More
Determinants of Fertility and Population Policies in MENA Countries
In this study, we examine the relationship between fertility and population policies and other potential... Read More