builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … that marriage by the median age reduces the probability of working for women by 47 percent in Jordan, 33 percent in Tunisia … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage …

four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education rapidly increased and fertility rates … labor market, free of bias. It finds that having more children does not reduce women's employment. The paper discusses the … increase women's work. …

-10 percentage points. However, if women in the Middle East and North Africa continue the current trend toward greater educational …

Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … and women constitutes a crucial step toward providing adequate guidance to planners, policymakers, and other stakeholders …