The Egyptian Labor Market
A Focus on Gender and Economic Vulnerability
Edited by Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad
Author Information
Caroline Krafft, Associate Professor of Economics, St. Catherine University,Ragui Assaad, Professor, University of Minnesota
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.
Contributors:
Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Virginia Tech
Mona Amer, Independent Consultant
Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota and the Economic Research Forum
Marian Atallah, Paris School of Economics
Ghada Barsoum, American University in Cairo
Anda David, Agence Française de Développement
Maye Ehab, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
Nelly El-Mallakh, Paris School of Economics and Institut Convergences Migrations
Luca Fedi, International Labour Organization
Rami Galal, World Bank
Dina Abdalla, Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai
Rasha Hassan, Population Council
Imane Helmy, Independent Consultant
Caitlyn Keo, University of Minnesota
Caroline Krafft, St. Catherine University
Reham Rizk, Universities of Canada
Ali Rashed, Islamic Development Bank
Rania Roushdy, American University in Cairo
Mona Said, American University in Cairo
Colette Salemi, University of Minnesota
Mina Sami, American University in Cairo
Irene Selwaness, Cairo University
Maia Sieverding, American University of Beirut
Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton