, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve …

Unlike many countries, the Arab Republic of Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following … model with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve" sector. The paper tests the implications of this theory using … that although there is a positive employment response to export expansion, it does not occur at a large enough scale to be …

, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve …

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

manufacturing firms starting export activities. Nevertheless, there are no corresponding findings for firms that stop exporting or …