BACKGROUND Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing, if not
reversal, of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the Middle …

Summary Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 calls on nations to promote gender
equality and to empower women and girls. SDG5 also recognizes the value of women's …

This paper introduces the 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS),
previously fielded in 1998, 2006, and 2012. The ELMPS has already become the primary …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of
employment vulnerability among youth in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, and their propensity to …

Despite increased access to education, women's conspicuous absence from the labour
market in Egypt, and the Arab world in general, has been a key issue. Building on the stock …

This paper investigates the character of labor supply and especially female labor force
participation in Egypt and its evolution over the twenty-year span from 1988 to 2018 using …

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's …

This study examined the effect of financial development on unemployment in 19 emerging
market countries, considering their age groups and gender dichotomy. The data covers the …

Although it is well-established in the literature that unemployment is a labor market insertion
problem in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the dynamics driving youth …

This paper presents new evidence on the impact of female education on fertility in Egypt
using the change in the length of primary schooling as the source of exogenous variation in …