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Employment Effects of Productivity Improvement and Migration of Skills Workers
This paper studies the employment of unskilled labor effects on skilled labor productivity improvements, alternatively... Read More
Financial Sector Policy and Poverty Reduction in Sudan
This paper examines the structure and performance of the financial sector in Sudan and its... Read More
Maghreb Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Morocco’s Towns
Using data from national-level households survey, this study seeks to fill a gap in the... Read More
The Role of Housing Markets in the Timing of Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
The transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is increasingly characterized... Read More
Employment’s Role in Enabling and Constraining Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa
This paper makes use of a series of comparable surveys to investigate the role of... Read More
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Egypt: Does Women’s Empowerment Lead to Greater Investments in Children?
This paper presents new empirical evidence from Egypt on the existence of intrahousehold allocation bias.... Read More
Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy – Turkey
This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on the overall unemployment... Read More
De Facto Exchange Rate Policies in the MENA Region: Toward Deeper Cooperation
The adoption of exchange rate policy coordination and cooperation within a regional framework becomes a... Read More
General or Vocational? Evidence on School Choice, Returns, and “Sheep Skin” Effects from Egypt 1998
The debate on the relative benefits of upper secondary vocational education and of general education... Read More