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namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
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In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … presence of continued risk factors in Tunisia's labour market resulting from the global financial crisis in 2008 and the Arab … separation decisions remained present in Tunisia's labour market. In addition, the paper looks at various social issues such as …
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We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …, reaching in Jordan a low of -0.18. …
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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 … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying …
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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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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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In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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Tunisia's GDP contracted by -8.8 percent in 2020, the worst performance since gaining independence in 1956. The poverty … rate in Tunisia could reach at least 20.9, the same level recorded in 2010, and as high as 25 percent according to various … estimates (Kokas et al., 2020); while inequality could reach an unprecedented Gini level of 0.41. While Tunisia has faced …
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