principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with … collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze … income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female …

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic … effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct … Syria and Iraq doubles the welfare losses. All these countries are foregoing opportunities to expand intra-Levant trade and …

southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the …

worldwide. This paper combines newly available data on the distribution of Syrian refugees across Turkey and the Turkish Labour … Force Survey to assess their labor market impact. Syrian refugees are overwhelmingly employed informally, since they were … formal employment for the Turkish - though only for men without completed high school education. Women and the high …

suggest that hosting refugees is favourable for firms. Total firm entry does not seem to be significantly affected. However …

East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. The first part highlights various channels through which public … infrastructure has both flow and stock effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a stock effect in Jordan and Tunisia. But …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates … are affected by the assumed levels of reconstruction assistance, repatriation of refugees, and productivity improvements …

policy aimed at trade liberalization? This paper examines this question by considering a directed policy effort by Syria … examine factors that are related to diversification at the sectoral level. Our findings suggest that, while Syria has achieved … strengthening Syria's weak institutional and business environment …