Ragui Assaad: Additional Publications
Books and Selected Chapters:
The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Reform. Ragui Assaad (Ed.) Cairo: American University of Cairo, 2002.
"Why Did Economic Liberalization Lead to Feminization of the Labor Force in Morocco and De-feminization in Egypt?" In Labor Markets in the Middle East and North Africa. Yousef, Tarik (ed), London: Routledge. (Forthcoming).
“Unemployment and Youth Insertion in the Labor Market in Egypt.” In The Egyptian Economy, Current Challenges and Future Prospects. Kheir-El-Din, Hanaa (ed.) An Egyptian Center for Economic Studies Publication. The American University in Cairo Press. Chapter 5, pp.133-178 (2008)
"Institutions, Household Decisions and Economic Growth in Egypt." In Explaining Growth in the Middle East. Hashem Pesaran and Jeffrey Nugent (Eds.) Amsterdam: North Holland Elsevier, pp. 385-411. (2007)
“Gender and Employment in Adjusting Countries: Egypt in a Comparative Perspective,” in Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender Dynamics in Transition, Eleanor Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney (Eds.) Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003.
“Female Labor Supply in Egypt: Participation and Hours of Work,” in Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East. Ismail Sirageldin (Ed.). Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2002 – co-author.
“Employment Experience in the Middle East and North Africa,” in Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East. Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Ed.). Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2001.
Selected Articles:
“Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt” – co-author.
“The Effect of Child Work on Schooling: Evidence from Egypt.” (June 2005) – co-author.
“Informalization and Defeminization: Explaining the Unusual Pattern in Egypt.” In Rethinking Informalization: Precarious Jobs, Poverty and Social Protection. Neema Kudva and Lourdes Beneria (Eds.) Ithaca, NY: Internet-First University Press. Available at D-Space Repository at Cornell University. (2005)
“Wage Formation and Recurrent Unemployment,” in Labor Economics 9 (2002) – co-author.
“Is all work the same? A comparison of the determinants of female participation and hours of work in various employment states in Egypt,” in The Economics of Women and Work in the Middle East and North Africa. Mine Cedar (Ed.). Research in Middle East Economics 4 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 2001).
"The Role of Non-Governmental Actors in Poverty Alleviation in Egypt." Social Development Issues (1999).
“Poverty and Poverty Alleviation Strategies in Egypt.” Cairo Papers in the Social Sciences 22, 1 (1999) – co-author
“Matching Severance Payments with Worker Losses in the Egyptian Public Sector,” World Bank Economic Review 13 (1999, 1).
“The Employment Crisis in Egypt: Current Trends and Future Prospects,” Research in Middle East Economics (1997) – co-author.
