The social contract is the deal between the state and its citizens by which the latter agree the
rule of the former in return for deliverables Over time, the state's deliverables have evolved …

While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the
roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution possible have seldom been …

Do more flexible labor market regulations reduce informal employment in formal firms? This
paper examines the effects of changes in labor regulations on the incidence of formal …

What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged
simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature …

Keyword and activities list approaches to measuring women's work are compared. The two
approaches were applied to the same population of women in Egypt in two consecutive …

This paper analyzed the inverse causality between informality and poverty in Egypt, in
addition to the impact of different individual and socio demographic factors affecting both of …

In the last few decades, the informal sector has played a major role in many of the LDC's
labor markets. Yet, little is known about the dynamics of this sector. This paper addresses an …

Most existing interpretations of the thought of Antonio Gramsci in International Relations and
International Political Economy are strongly influenced by the seminal account provided by …

We run recentered influence function (RIF) regressions, using Firpo et al.(2007)
distributional approach to identify each control variable's contribution on the decomposition …

Egypt has undergone a number of economic reform measures since the early 1990s, with
the aim of liberalizing the economy and moving toward a market economy. As a result …