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Flexible labor regulations and informality in Egypt
No full textDo more flexible labor market regulations reduce informal employment in formal firms? This paper examines the effects of changes in labor regulations on the incidence of formal employment. Using the case of Egypt, we study the effects of the introduction of more flexible labor regulations in 2003 on the probability that non-contractual workers will be granted a formal employment contract. To identify the effect of the law and control for potential confounding factors, we use a difference-in-difference estimator that measures the difference in the pre and post-law probability of obtaining a formal contract across a treatment group of non-contractual workers initially employed in formal firms and a comparison group of non-contractual workers initially employed in informal firms. The latter serve as a useful comparison group since informal firms are unlikely to formalize as a result of the law, so that the only way their workers can become formal is to move to another firm. Our findings show that the passage of the new labor law did in fact increase the probability of transitioning to formal employment for non-contractual workers employed in formal firms by about 3-3.5 percentage points, or the equivalent of at least a fifth of informal workers in formal firms
Productive Safety Net Programme and Children’s Time Use between Work and Schooling in Ethiopia
Full text linkGovernment, non-government and donor organisations have developed a social assistance programme known as the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) which has two subprogrammes, namely the Public Work Programme (PWP) and Direct Support Programme (DSP). PSNP is designed to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to drought. It targets households in most cases without considering ex ante the issue of intra-household resource distribution. This paper assesses, using Young Lives survey data, the impacts of PSNP and Agricultural Extension Programme (AEP) on time use between work and schooling, as well as the highest grade completed by 12-year-old children in rural and urban Ethiopia. Empirically the study used propensity score matching techniques to estimate the impact of PSNP and AEP on child welfare measured by time use in various types of work, schooling and studying. We found that PWP in rural areas increases child work for pay; reduces children’s time spent on child care, household chores and total hours spent on all kind of work combined; and increases girls spending on studying. The DSP in rural and urban areas reduces time children spent on paid and unpaid work, and increases the highest grade completed by boys in urban areas. On the other hand, AEP in rural areas was effective in reducing child work for pay and total work, increasing time girls spent on schooling and the highest grade completed by girls
La transformacion del sistema de recoleccion de basura de El Cairo
No full textASSAAD, Ragui. La transformacion del sistema de recoleccion de basura de El Cairo. in Revista Mexicana de Sociologia, vol.57, n°1, janvier / mars 1995, p.167-182 Based on the concept of legal pluralism, this article analyzes the attempts to ensure that the refuse collection system in Cairo be placed under the control of municipal authorities, whose attempt to impose a "modern" system only served to start a confrontation between the governing authorities, with the support of the State ..
Making Sense of Developments in Post-Revolution Egypt
No full textThe Global Awareness Lecture series presented Dr. Ragui Assaad, professor of public affairs at the Humphrey Institute, who spoke on Making Sense of Developments in Post-Revolution Egypt. Dr. Assaad\u27s current research focuses on labor markets in the Arab world, with a particular focus on youth and gender issues as they relate to education, transition from school to work, employment, migration and family formation
Kinship ties, social networks, and segmented labor markets: evidence from the construction sector in Egypt
No full textFormalizing the Informal ? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System
No full textASSAAD, Ragui. Formalizing the Informal ? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System. in Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol. 16, n°2, 1996, p.115-126 The paper examines recent attempts to bring Cairo's traditional refuse collection system under municipal control. Although essentially informal, this system had a well-defined set of internal rules, rights, and sanctioning mechanisms that evolved over several decades in response to a changing external environment. At..
La transformacion del sistema de recoleccion de basura de El Cairo
No full textASSAAD, Ragui. La transformacion del sistema de recoleccion de basura de El Cairo. in Revista Mexicana de Sociologia, vol.57, n°1, janvier / mars 1995, p.167-182 Based on the concept of legal pluralism, this article analyzes the attempts to ensure that the refuse collection system in Cairo be placed under the control of municipal authorities, whose attempt to impose a "modern" system only served to start a confrontation between the governing authorities, with the support of the State ..
Formal and informal institutions in the labor market, with applications to the construction sector in Egypt
No full textJob Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textRefugees 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 job
finding and separation rates of Syrian refugees to those of
their hosts before and after the onset of the COVID-19
pandemic. The findings show the change in these rates over
time for Syrians to be similar to those of their Jordanian
hosts prior to the pandemic, with a significant divergence
after the start of the pandemic. Distinguishing between
Syrians living in camps and those living in host communities
shows that the Syrian disadvantage was entirely explained by
living in camps
The impact of international migration and remittances on the labor-supply behavior of those left behind: evidence from Egypt
Full text linkWe analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint effect of migration and remittance income (MR) and evaluate these effects for men and women separately. Additionally, we examine the labor supply behavior of wives whose husband migrated. We draw on the 2006 cross section using an instrumental variable approach as well as on the 1998/2006 panel of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS06). In line with the literature, women in MR households (albeit not in M households) tend to reduce their wage and salary work. We find evidence for both intra-household specialization and an increase in women's (and wives') total work load. Men are generally less affected. Our results suggest that it is important to differentiate between these two effects and between the different forms of market and non-market work as well as to consider the relationship between remitter and recipient
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