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1“...We investigate the role of employment in enabling and constraining marriage for young men and women in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. Survival analysis methods...”
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2“...Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted transition from school to work and thus into...”
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3“...Do more flexible labor market regulations reduce informal employment in formal firms? This paper examines the effects of changes in labor regulations on the...”
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4“...Jordan stands in the middle of a turbulent region, experiencing substantial refugee flows and economic challenges due to the conflict and insecurity of its...”
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5“...In Egypt and Jordan, there is a substantial mismatch between the output of the higher education system and the needs of the labor market. Both demand and...”
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6“...Female labour force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the...”
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7“...This book offers a comprehensive and deep examination of the key labor market issues in Tunisia, including the size, structure, and evolution of the labor...”
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8by Assaad, Ragui Friedemann-Sánchez, Greta Levison, Deborah Published in Violence against women (01.10.2017)“...We explore the methodological challenges of estimating the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) against the mother on the educational outcomes of her...”
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9by Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad Hassine, Nadia Belhaj Hassine, Nadia Belhaj Assaad, Ragui Assaad, Ragui Published in Journal of economic inequality (01.12.2014)“...This paper is an empirical investigation of inequality of education opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We use student scores from tests...”
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10“...The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question...”
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11by Assaad, Ragui Krafft, Caroline Roemer, John Salehi‐Isfahani, Djavad Published in The Review of income and wealth (01.10.2018)“...Most explanations of the recent political upheavals in Egypt since 2011 include a reference to rising inequality, but the usual indicators of income inequality...”
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12Pedagogy, Accountability, and Perceptions of Quality by Type of Higher Education in Egypt and Jordanby Assaad, Ragui Badawy, Eslam Krafft, Caroline Published in Comparative education review (01.11.2016)“...A number of reasons have been proposed for the poor quality of higher education in the Arab world, including the poor incentive structures of public higher...”
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13“...The book is about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings. The text analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor...”
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14“...This book analyses the results of the Jordan Labour Market Panel Survey of 2010 (JLMPS 2010), a major household survey of labour market conditions carried out...”
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15“...In Egypt, girls' work primarily takes the form of domestic tasks, which are not considered in many studies of child labor. This paper investigates the effect...”
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16“...We examine in this paper the evolution of gender gaps in labor market outcomes during structural adjustment and explore the extent to which widening gaps can...”
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17by Assaad, Ragui Published in IZA journal of labor & development (01.12.2014)“...It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment, weak...”
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18by Ragui Assaad Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.1997)“...This article examines the combined impact of the employment guarantee for graduates and public sector compensation policies on the Egyptian labor market...”
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19“...This paper introduces the 2012 round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), a publicly-available nationally representative longitudinal household...”
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20“...The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question...”