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Ragui Assaad is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans key areas in social sciences and economics, emphasizing labor markets, migration, and gender dynamics.

The main fields of study associated with Ragui Assaad include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research, and General Health Professions.

Assaad's research has covered a variety of topics including:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Housing Market and Economics

Their publication record includes numerous journal articles and book chapters. Notable recent papers by Assaad include:

  • "Explaining the MENA paradox: Rising educational attainment yet stagnant female labor force participation," 2020, Demographic Research
  • "Excluded generation: the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth," 2020, Journal of Youth Studies
  • "The Impact of Marriage on Women's Employment in the Middle East and North Africa," 2022, Feminist Economics

Assaad has also contributed to edited volumes published by the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including:

  • "How do Small Formal and Informal Firms in the Arab Republic of Egypt Compare? An Analysis of Firm Characteristics and Implications for Formalization Efforts," 2020
  • "Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2024

Frequent coauthors with whom Assaad has collaborated include:

  • Caroline Krafft
  • Khandker Wahedur Rahman
  • Colette Salemi
  • Abdurrahman Aydemir
  • Meltem Dayıoğlu

Assaad's work is often published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Open Access Government, Demographic Research, and Journal of Development Economics.

Best Publications

  • The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Revolution

    Ragui Assaad;Caroline Krafft

  • The Effects of Public Sector Hiring and Compensation Policies on the Egyptian Labor Market

    Ragui Assaad

  • Youth in the Middle East and North Africa: Demographic opportunity or challenge?

    Ragui Assaad;Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi

  • Egyptian men working abroad: Labour supply responses by the women left behind

    Christine Binzel;Ragui A Assaad

  • Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism

    Ragui Assaad

  • Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt

    Ragui Assaad;Melanie Arntz

  • After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World

    Magdi Amin;Ragui A Assaad;Nazar Al-Baharna;Kemal Dervis

  • The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey: Introducing the 2012 Round

    Ragui Assaad;Caroline Krafft

  • Formal and informal institutions in the labor market, with applications to the construction sector in Egypt

    Ragui Assaad

  • Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation.

    Ragui Assaad;Rana Hendy;Moundir Lassassi;Shaimaa Yassin

  • Equality of opportunity in educational achievement in the Middle East and North Africa

    Djavad Salehi-Isfahani;Nadia Belhaj Hassine;Ragui Assaad

  • Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

    Christine Binzel;Ragui Assaad

  • Youth exclusion in Egypt: in search of "second chances"

    Ragui Assaad;Ghada F Barsoum

  • Paid work, women’s empowerment and inclusive growth: transforming the structures of constraint

    Naila Kabeer;Ragui Assaad;Akosua Darkwah;Simeen Mahmud

  • The Structure and Evolution of Employment in Egypt: 1998-2012

    Caroline Krafft;Ragui Assaad

  • A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RETURNS TO EDUCATION OF URBAN MEN IN EGYPT, IRAN, AND TURKEY

    Djavad Salehi-Isfahani;Insan Tunali;Ragui A. Assaad

  • Providing new opportunities to adolescent girls in socially conservative settings: the Ishraq program in rural Upper Egypt.

    Martha Brady;Ragui Assaad;Barbara L. Ibrahim;Abeer Salem

  • The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling: Evidence from Egypt

    Ragui A Assaad;Deborah Levison;Nadia Zibani

  • Private and Group Tutoring in Egypt: Where is the Gender Inequality?

    Asmaa Elbadawy;Ragui Assaad;Dennis Ahlburg;Deborah Levison

  • Women in the Egyptian Labor Market: An Analysis of Developments, 1988–2006

    Ragui Assaad

  • The Egyptian labor market revisited

    Ragui Assaad

  • Labor Supply, Employment and Unemployment in the Egyptian Economy, 1988-2006

    Ragui Assaad

Frequent Co-Authors

Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer London School of Economics and Political Science

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