The Egyptian Labor Market A Focus on Gender and Economic Vulnerability

by Krafft, Caroline; Assaad, Ragui

• ISBN13: 9780192847911
• ISBN10: 0192847910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-06-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Caroline Krafft, Associate Professor of Economics, St. Catherine University,Ragui Assaad, Professor, University of Minnesota

Caroline Krafft is an Associate Professor of Economics at St. Catherine University. She received her master's degree in public policy from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and her PhD from the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research
examines issues in development economics, primarily labor, education, health, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. Current projects include work on refugees, labor market dynamics, life course transitions, human capital accumulation, and fertility.

Ragui Assaad is a Professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He has been a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum since 1994 and is a member of its Board of Trustees. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. His current
research focuses on labor markets in the Arab World, with a focus on youth and gender issues as they relate to education, transition from school-to-work, employment and unemployment, informality, migration and forced migration, and family formation.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Ibrahim Elbadawi
Introduction, Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad
1. The Evolution of Labor Supply in Egypt from 1988-2018: A Gendered Analysis, Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, and Caitlyn Keo
2. Is the Egyptian Economy Creating Good Jobs? Job Creation and Economic Vulnerability from 1998 to 2018, Ragui Assaad, Abdelaziz AlSharawy, and Colette Salemi
3. Evolution of Wages, Inequality, and Social Mobility in Egypt, Mona Said, Rami Galal, and Mina Sami
4. The School-to-Work Transition and Youth Economic Vulnerability in Egypt, Mona Amer and Marian Atallah
5. Still the Employer of Choice: Evolution of Public Sector Employment in Egypt, Ghada Barsoum and Dina Abdalla
6. Trends and Patterns of Women's Entrepreneurship in Egypt, Reham Rizk and Ali Rashed
7. Internal versus International Migration in Egypt: Together or Far Apart, Anda David, Nelly El-Mallakh, and Jackline Wahba
8. Rural Women in Egypt: Opportunities and Vulnerabilities, Caitlyn Keo, Caroline Krafft, and Luca Fedi
9. Social Protection and Vulnerability in Egypt: A Gendered Analysis, Irene Selwaness and Maye Ehab
10. Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Shocks in Egypt, Imane Helmy and Rania Roushdy
11. Associations between Economic Vulnerability and Health and Wellbeing in Egypt, Maia Sieverding and Rasha Hassan
Epilogue