back home. We test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. We find that, even after controlling for the …

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt … ; education ; social mobility ; inequality ; social movements ; Egypt …

Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial …

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …

particular generate in two important sectors - transport and agriculture - in two MENA countries, Egypt (transport) and Yemen … (agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy …