Ragui Assaad

Mongi Boughzala

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the key labor market issues facing Tunisia, including the size, structure, and evolution of the labor force, employment and unemployment, wage formation, gender differences, education, and migration.

The Tunisian Labor Market in an Era of Transition

Caroline Krafft

Analysing the results of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) from 2012, the chapters in this book cover topics that contribute to understanding the conditions leading to the Egyptian revolution of January 2011.

The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Revolution

Hafez Ghanem

Carol Graham

Raj M. Desai

Magdi Amin

Nazar al-Baharna

Kemal Dervis

Navtej S. Dhillon

Ahmed Galal

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring. The authors argue that reforms need to accomplish four objectives: more opportunities for youth, modernization of the state, creation of a competitive private economy, and integration of Arab countries with the global economy.

Economic Transitions in the Arab World

After the Spring

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012. The chapters cover topics that are essential to understanding the conditions leading to the Egyptian revolution of 25 January 2011, including the persistence of high youth unemployment, labor market segmentation and rigidity, growing informality, and the declining role of the state as an employer. It includes the first research on the impact of the revolution and the ensuing economic crisis on the labor market, including issues such as changes in earnings, increased insecurity of employment, declining female labor force participation, and the stagnation of micro and small enterprise growth. Comparisons are made to labor market conditions prior to the revolution using previous rounds of the survey fielded in 1988, 1998, and 2006. The chapters make use of this unique longitudinal data to provide a fresh analysis of the Egyptian labor market after the Arab Spring, an analysis that was simply not feasible with previously existing data. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the economics of the Middle East and the political economy of the Arab Spring.

Ragui Assaad

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