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Does Palestinian Labor Law Hurt Employment Possibilities For Palestinian Youth?
25 Apr 2011, Edward Sayre and Mary Kraetsch

Edward Sayre and Mary Kraetsch investigate the effects of the Palestinian Labor Law of 2000 on unemployment duration for Palestinian youth, and suggest that easing school-to-work transitions for Palestinian youth requires labor reforms designed to strike a creative balance between providing worker protections and ensuring employers have a degree of flexibility in their hiring and firing decisions.

Transitions to Employment and Marriage among Young Men in Egypt
18 Oct 2010, Ragui Assaad, Christine Binzel and May Gadallah

Ragui Assaad, Christine Binzel and May Gadallah share new findings on the transition to first jobs, job mobility, and the timing of marriage among young men in Egypt.

Youth Transitions to Employment and Marriage in Iran: Evidence from the School to Work Transition Survey
30 Jun 2010, Daniel Egel and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Daniel Egel and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani examine the factors that affect youth transitions to adulthood in Iran, using retrospective data to connect individual outcomes in the education system and labor and marriage markets.
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Toward Sustainable Development for the Next Generation
22 Apr 2010, Ehaab Abdou, Amina Fahmy, Diana Greenwald and Jane Nelson

Ehaab Abdou, Amina Fahmy, Diana Greenwald and Jane Nelson propose recommendations to facilitate the development of institutional alliances that need to take place in order to capitalize on social entrepreneurship, boost economic opportunities for young people in the Middle East, and prepare the region become more fully integrated into a rapidly changing global economy.

Youth Exclusion in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: The Impact of Social, Economic and Political Forces
25 Jan 2010, Edward Sayre and Samia Al-Botmeh

Edward Sayre and Samia Al-Botmeh examine three dimensions of the transition to adulthood by Palestinian youth: acquiring skills through schooling and training, finding employment, and forming a family.

Youth Exclusion in Yemen: Tackling the Twin Deficits of Human Development and Natural Resources
5 Jan 2010, Ragui Assaad, Ghada Barsoum, Emily Cupito and Daniel Egel

Ragui Assaad, Ghada Barsoum, Emily Cupito and Daniel Egel present a comprehensive overview of youth exclusion in Yemen.

Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East
8 Oct 2009, Edited by Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef

Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East (Brookings Press, 2009), edited by Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef, represents three years of research on youth exclusion in the Middle East.

Missed by the Boom, Hurt by the Bust: Making Markets Work for Young People in the Middle East
13 May 2009, Navtej Dhillon, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Paul Dyer, Tarik Yousef, Amina Fahmy, Mary Kraetsch

A new Middle East Youth Initiative report is the first of its kind to assess the early risks faced by young people during the economic downturn, calling on policy makers to help prevent an intensified jobs crisis in the region.

Why Young Syrians Prefer Public Sector Jobs
18 Mar 2009, Nader Kabbani

In this Middle East Youth Initiative Policy Outlook, Nader Kabbani examines how incentives determine young people's choices between public and private sector employment.

Did Housing Policy Reforms Curb the Delay in Marriage Among Young Men in Egypt?
26 Nov 2008, Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Ramadan

In this Middle East Youth Initiative Policy Outlook, Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Ramadan demonstrate that housing policy reforms in Egypt have made rental housing more affordable and accessible to young people and have also contributed to a declining age at marriage among young men.

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