The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt … and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants … acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of skill mismatch …

relationships for an institutional system based on formal and impersonal rules. Based on a case study carried out in Egypt, we will …

particularly criticized. Therefore the aim of this article is to present an overview of employment in Egypt, with a specific focus …

In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two … significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 …

This article uses recent survey data from the Kayes area (Western Mali) to estimate the effect of migration and …

. Although migrants form more than three quarters of the active population in Nairobi, migration has not had a specific impact on … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …

earnings equations estimated for each country. We find that migration behaviour has a significant effect in shaping earnings …