LABOUR MARKET MOBILITY AMONG EGYPTIAN YOUTH
Dennis A. Ahlburg
Industrial Relations Center
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
U.S.A
and
Division of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Highfield U. K.
dahlburg@csom.umn.edu
and
Mona Amer
University of Cairo
Faculty of Economics and Political Science
and
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
mona_amer@yahoo.fr
November 1 2004
* Thanks to Ragui Assaad, Cynthia Lloyd, Alia El Mahdi, Ozlem Onaran, and Insan Tunali for comments on the paper. The authors acknowledge funding support from the International Center for Economic Growth, through its Economic Policy Initiative Consortium Project in Egypt funded by USAID and from the Fesler-Lampert Professorship (Ahlburg).
Abstract
This paper investigates the dynamics of labor market experiences of young Egyptians. Sectoral persistence was found to be high, especially for women. Over an......
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