This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on men's labor market outcomes in the West Bank and Gaza, examining adjustments at the extensive (participation) and intensive (hours of work) margins of the labor supply. Quarterly panel data from national labor force surveys allow...

While economic growth has been sustained for a number of years in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this has not resulted in the creation of an adequate number of jobs and has succeeded, at best, in generating low-quality, informal jobs. While there is a great...

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Main Messages; Executive Summary; Overview; Introduction; Labor markets in MENA: Inefficient and inequitable; Figures; O.1 Composition of the working-age population in MENA and two other regions, 2010; O.2 Rates of female labor force...

This paper examines the Arab Republic of Egypt's labor market transition dynamics post-Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition to providing disaggregated-level analysis by examining labor market transitions by...

This paper examines the Arab Republic of Egypt's labor market transition dynamics post–Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018. In addition to providing disaggregated-level analysis by examining labor market transitions...