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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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poverty and inequality in many developing countries. However, the Arab Republic of Egypt was not one of these countries … two possibilities. First, it is possible that trade agreements did not produce the same increase in trade for Egypt as for … hypotheses. Using a gravity model approach, the results suggest that the changes in Egypt's exports following trade agreements …
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We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …
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This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …
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In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which …
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outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries … Egypt as observed in other countries, as highlighted in the existing literature explaining the adverse effects of imports on … developing countries. Despite being more open to trade, trade-intensive industries in Egypt have not experienced a significant …
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earning differences between genders in the case of Egypt. We use a cross-sectional micro-level dataset taken from the Egyptian …
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Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
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We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...
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