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Author: Ragui Assaad
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789774247125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the changes that occurred in the Egyptian labor market over a ten-year period
Author: Ragui Assaad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0198737254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) from 2012. The chapters cover topics that contribute to understanding the conditions leading to the Egyptian revolution of 25 January 2011.
Author: Ragui Assaad
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789774162480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGround-breaking research methodology applied to an analysis of labor issues in Egypt
Author: Caroline Krafft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0192847910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Egyptian economy has faced many challenges in the decade since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Not only was job creation anaemic from 2012 to 2018, but new jobs were also of low-quality, characterized by informality and vulnerability to economic shocks. These challenges pushed many in Egypt, especially the most vulnerable, into a more precarious labor market situation. Then, in the midst of economic recovery brought on by tough reform measures adopted in 2016 and 2017, the country was hit by the widespread disruption of a global pandemic. This book examines the plight of Egypt's most vulnerable groups by focusing on the intersection of gender and economic vulnerability in the labor market. With this emphasis on vulnerability and a lens that is sensitive to gender differences and inequities, the contributors to this volume use data from the most recent wave of a unique longitudinal survey to illuminate different aspects of Egyptians' lives. The aspects they explore include labor supply behavior, the ability to access good quality and well-paying jobs, the evolution of wages and wage inequality, the school-to-work transition of youth, the decline in public sector employment, international and internal migration, the situation of rural women, access to social protection, food security, vulnerability to shocks and coping mechanisms, health status, and access to health care services. These analyses are prescient in understanding the axes of vulnerability in Egyptian society that became all too salient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper studies the impact of labor market policies on growth and unemployment in labor-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The analysis is based on a framework that captures many of the main features of the labor market in these countries. We conduct a variety of policy experiments, including a reduction in payroll taxation, cuts in public sector wages and employment, an increase in employment subsidies, a reduction in trade unions' bargaining power, and a composite reform program. Our key message is that to foster broad-based growth and job creation in the region, labor market reforms must not be viewed in isolation but rather as a component of a comprehensive program of structural reforms.
Author: Khalid Ikram
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9774167945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on Khalid Ikram's extensive knowledge of economic policymaking at the highest levels, The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt lays out the enduring features of the Egyptian economy and its performance since 1952 before presenting an account of policy-making, growth and structural change under the country's successive presidents to the present day.
Author: Caroline Krafft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0192584928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJordan stands in the middle of a turbulent region, experiencing substantial refugee flows and economic challenges due to the conflict and insecurity of its neighbors. The Jordanian Labor Market: Between Fragility and Resilience fills an enormous gap in our knowledge regarding the region's labor market during a period of substantial instability and new challenges for Jordan. Prior to the refugee crisis the Jordanian economy and labor market had been shifting in a positive direction. An enormous influx of Syrian refugees, however, created unanswered questions of how the region's labor market would fare. The Jordanian Labor Market leverages the 2016 Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey to provide answers to some of these questions. It offers an unprecedented opportunity to assess the challenges that Jordan faces. It addresses key economic and policy questions through unparalleled nationally representative date. The Jordanian Labor Market presents critical new insights into the status of migrants and refugees in Jordan. It examines key indicators of the labor market including labor supply, job creation, wages and inequality, and self-employment. It also looks at transitions across the life course in Jordan such as education, school-to-work transition, marriage and fertility, housing and new households, and social insurance and retirement. These factors provide important insight into important challenges Jordan's economy and society faces.
Author: Mustapha Kamel Nabli
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 0821374168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's attention to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has often been dominated by headline issues: conflict, sanctions, political turmoil, and rising oil prices. Little of this international attention has considered the broad range of development challenges facing this diverse group of countries. Breaking the Barriers reflects the collected thinking of the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA Region on the long-term development challenges facing the region and the reform priorities and strategies for effectively meeting these challenges. It.
Author: Rana Jawad
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1786431998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region by critically reviewing the range of social insurance and social assistance schemes that are currently in existence there. It also analyses and offers suggestions on which of these policies can positively impact the region’s advancement in terms of human development and in addressing social and economic inequalities and exclusion.
Author: Massimiliano Cricco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-06-22
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1443896578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo attempt to define the Mediterranean as a region can overlook the multiplicity of political, religious and social forces at work along its shores. Responding to changes in the global and regional environment these forces have interacted in complex ways, as evidenced by their impact on the social, cultural, and political life of the states comprised between the covers of this collaborative volume. The peculiarity of the Mediterranean, as has been noted time and again, lies in its geographical position as a “sea in the middle of the land”, where different religions and cultures vie for recognition and self-expression. In the wake of the popular uprisings that have inflamed the region, beginning in Tunisia in December 2010, a drastic reorganisation of their respective state systems is coming into focus in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Though their paths do not run along parallel lines, they share a common denominator: the determination of their people to become the masters of their destinies, and to do so by grappling with new forms of democracy. Almost five years later, after their rulers became the target of violent mass protests, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are going through an exceptionally difficult transition, trying to accommodate their nascent constitutional forms to the new forces inspired by the Arab Spring.
