Documents et rapports
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Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)
Refugees face important barriers to participation in the formal market, which locks them in informal employment and makes them more vulnerable to shocks. Using data from Jordan, this paper compares the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10670 Date du document: 16 janvier 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wahby,Sarah Mohammad Osman,Assaad,Ragui A
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Connecting People to Projects : A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
Innovations to date in detecting women’s employment have focused primarily on improving individual-level questions. This paper explores an alternative approach, using data on household enterprises and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10659 Date du document: 9 janvier 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Assaad,Ragui A,Krafft,Caroline Gould
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How Do Small Formal and Informal Firms in the Arab Republic of Egypt Compare ? (anglais)
Formalizing firms can potentially increase the tax base, expand safety and social protections for workers, create good jobs, and grow the economy. However, the costs and processes of formality may be too...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9423 Date du document: 5 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krafft,Caroline Gould,Assaad,Ragui A,Rahman,Khandker Wahedur,Cumanzala,Maakwe
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Structural adjustment, demography, and the Egyptian labor market in the 1990s (anglais)
The Egyptian economy has undergone significant changes in the 1990s brought about in part by the implementation of an ambitious economic reform and structural adjustment program, initiated in 1991 as well...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 28759 Date du document: 1 mai 2000 Auteur: Assaad,Ragui A
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The World Bank economic review 13 (1) (anglais)
Public sector downsizing: an introduction, by Martin Rama. Cross-country evidence on public sector retrenchment, by John Haltiwanger and Manisha Singh. The efficient mechanism for downsizing the public...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 19241 Date du document: 31 janvier 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rama, Martin,Haltiwanger,John Couch,SINGH, MANISHA G.,Jeon,Doh-Shin,Laffont,Jean Jacques,Macisaac,Donna J.,Assaad,Ragui A,Ruppert Bulmer,Elizabeth N.,Scott, Kinnon
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Matching severance payments with worker losses in the Egyptian public sector (anglais)
Severance pay programs can reduce political opposition and minimize the social costs of labor redundancies. In Egypt, only voluntary programs are feasible because legal limitations preclude layoffs and...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77288 Date du document: 1 janvier 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Assaad,Ragui A
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Effects of public sector hiring and compensation policies on the Egyptian labor market (anglais)
This article examines the combined impact of the employment guarantee for graduates and public sector compensation policies on the Egyptian labor market. Besides contributing to an unsustainable rate of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77236 Date du document: 1 janvier 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Assaad,Ragui A