The Egyptian Labor Market Revisited
Ragui Assaad
Abstract
This book is a follow-up to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to examine a wide spectrum of issues concerning the labor market in Egypt. The range of topics includes labor supply, employment and unemployment, youth labor market school-to-work transition, internal and international migration, earnings and inequality, and gender and education. The papers in the book are based on data collected in the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2006, a follow-up to the Egypt Labor ... More
This book is a follow-up to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to examine a wide spectrum of issues concerning the labor market in Egypt. The range of topics includes labor supply, employment and unemployment, youth labor market school-to-work transition, internal and international migration, earnings and inequality, and gender and education. The papers in the book are based on data collected in the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2006, a follow-up to the Egypt Labor Market Survey of 1998.
Keywords:
ERF,
labor market,
Egypt,
labor supply,
employment,
unemployment,
youth labor,
internal migration,
international migration,
earnings
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9789774162480 |
| Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2011 |
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774162480.001.0001 |
