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Podcast: "Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism"
On September 18, Professor Ragui Assaad, Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, held a seminar in our Fall 2013 series.
The use of public sector employment by Arab regimes to appease politically significant groups in the post-independence period has led to oversized public sectors, high youth unemployment, especially among the educated, inappropriate investments in human capital and stagnant rates of female participation in economic activity. Part of the fall 2013 series led by Professor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: "The Politics and Economics of Transition in the Arab World."
For more information on the Fall 2013 series, click here.
Listen to the audio recording of this event here:
About Professor Ragui Assaad:
Ragui Assaad, professor, researches labor policy and labor market analysis in developing countries, the informal economy, community and economic development, and developing countries' urban planning. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community development efforts among Cairo's informal waste collectors. Assaad has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the Ford Foundation, and UNICEF. Assaad is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey. He received a doctorate in city and regional planning from Cornell University and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He earned the Humphrey School's teacher of the year award in 1992, 1995, 1996, and 2000.
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On September 18, Professor Ragui Assaad, Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, held a seminar in our Fall 2013 series.
The use of public sector employment by Arab regimes to appease politically significant groups in the post-independence period has led to oversized public sectors, high youth unemployment, especially among the educated, inappropriate investments in human capital and stagnant rates of female participation in economic activity. Part of the fall 2013 series led by Professor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani: "The Politics and Economics of Transition in the Arab World."
For more information on the Fall 2013 series, click here.
Listen to the audio recording of this event here:
About Professor Ragui Assaad:
Ragui Assaad, professor, researches labor policy and labor market analysis in developing countries, the informal economy, community and economic development, and developing countries' urban planning. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community development efforts among Cairo's informal waste collectors. Assaad has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the Ford Foundation, and UNICEF. Assaad is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey. He received a doctorate in city and regional planning from Cornell University and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He earned the Humphrey School's teacher of the year award in 1992, 1995, 1996, and 2000.
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