I subject the paradigm of a rational individual acting upon earnings-enhancing benefits of migration to careful statistical scrutiny, using a rich micro-data set from Turkey.

The main objective of this paper is to provide evidence on the extent of the wage differential between general and vocationnal high school graduates who do not go on to higher education.

In this paper, the determinants of school participation and child labor in Egypt of 6 - 14 year old children are studied at the household level, using micro data from the October 1988 LFSS. Three main logit regression analyses were conducted: the likelihood of a child being enrolled in school,...

This paper looks at the implications of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership agreement on labor and wages in Egypt, using a dynamic CGE model, which takes into account the labor market segmentation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization bears the risk of promoting the use of...