Gebundenes Buch

The Egyptian Labor Market

A Focus on Gender and Economic Vulnerability

Herausgeber: Krafft, Caroline; Assaad, Ragui

Beschreibung

The Egyptian economy has faced tough challenges since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. This book examines the plight of Egypt's most vulnerable groups by focusing on the intersection of gender and economic vulnerability in the labor market, exploring issues such as job access, wage inequality, food security, health status, and many others.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780192847911
• ISBN-10: 0192847910
• Artikelnr.: 64082075