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This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury...
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
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back home. We test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. We find that, even after controlling for the …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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particular generate in two important sectors - transport and agriculture - in two MENA countries, Egypt (transport) and Yemen …
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-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support …
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Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration …
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