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The study has surveyed the post-Arab Spring youth employment policies that have been adopted in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan …
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the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the …Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for … 1996 and 2006 experienced lower aggregate employment growth during the period than those that did not. A wide array of …
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We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...
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Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become major development challenge. In Ghana the...
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