...Caroline Krafft; Ragui Assaad Purpose This paper aims to investigate the wage-productivity relationship at the firm level in Egypt. It quantifies the relative role of factors related to the use of efficiency wages (paying higher than market wages to improve worker quality, effort and retention...

... of the gender wage gap in Egypt, as well as its evolution over the last 20 years, disaggregated by public and private sector. The authors also provide an analysis of the cultural determinants of Egypt's low female participation. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...

...Shireen Alazzawi; Vladimir Hlasny Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of employment vulnerability among youth in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, and their propensity to transition to better jobs over time. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based...

... of this paper is to examine the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent school exit cohorts between 2001 and 2012 in Egypt, thus, presenting an early evidence on the adjustments of the labor market in terms of patterns of youth transition to a first job following the 2011 Egyptian uprising...

...Abdalla F. Hayajenh; Ahmed S. Maghrabi; Taher H. Al‐Dabbagh Examines the relationship between nepotism and various organizational characteristics (size, ownership, and geographic region) in certain organizations in two countries – Jordan and Egypt. Results indicated that HRMs in large organizations...