In this paper, we use the 2006 Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey to gauge and compare the effects of parent-specific characteristics, namely the educational attainment and the contributions made by the mother and the father to marriage costs, on children's welfare, which we measure by the...

This paper presents new empirical evidence from Egypt on the existence of intrahousehold allocation bias. We examine the effects of the women's status within the household on investment in children human capital—focusing specifically on children’s schooling and nutrition. Special attention...

Egypt has been a major exporter of labor to oil-rich Arab countries. More recently, Egyptian migrants are increasingly heading to Europe. We assess the impact of international migration and remittances on child schooling and child work in Egypt. We use the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2006...

The main challenge tackled by this study is to estimate a structural equation for children's employment as a function of parental and own wages, which are assumed to be simultaneously determined with the child?s employment status. The results indicate that employment of children is responsive to...

The main objective of this paper is to determine the causal relationship between child work and school enrollment in Egypt while taking into account the simultaneous nature of family (or child) decisions regarding school and work activities. We also assess how a broader definition of work,...

Cross-section data on non-contractual construction workers in Egypt reveal strong attachment to the sector despite demand instability. Also present are statistically significant wage differentials between construction trades. Preliminary examination suggests that employers might be compensating...

Because the Egyptian labor code contains stringent job security provisions, the focus of this paper is on voluntary severance programs. An efficient voluntary program would achieve its exit target by matching compensation payments to the individual-specific losses that workers incur by leaving...

This paper examines the combined impact of the employment guarantee for graduates and public sector compensation policies on the Egyptian labor market. Besides contributing to an unsustainable rate of growth in the government labor force, these policies encouraged queuing for government jobs and...

This paper examines whether private employers are able to pass the cost of protective social regulations to their workers in the form of lower wages. I answer this question by decomposing wage differentials between protected and unprotected workers into components explained by differences in...