The Jordanian Labor Market
Between Fragility and Resilience
Edited by Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad
Author Information
Caroline Krafft, Assistant Professor, St Catherine University, USA,Ragui Assaad, Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA
Caroline Krafft is an Assistant Professor of Economics at St. Catherine University. 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 serves as its thematic leader for Labor and Human Development, and as 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:
Sawsan Abdulrahim, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Ibrahim Alhawarin, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan
Mona Amer, Independent Labor Economics Consultant
Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota, USA
Nasma Berri, American University of Beirut
Ahmed Elsayed, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Germany
Rami Galal, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Mahmoud Ali Hailat, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Caitlyn Keo, St. Catherine University, USA
Caroline Krafft, St. Catherine University, USA
Bilal Malaeb, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Reham Rizk, British University, Egypt
Mona Said, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Colette Salemi, University of Minnesota, USA
Irene Selwaness, Cairo University, Egypt
Susan Razzaz, formerly World Bank
Maia Sieverding, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton, UK