Measuring and operationalizing job quality in Egypt

Assaad, Ragui; Roushdy, Rania; Rashed, Ali

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“…6. Family wealth based on the households' accumulated durable-asset wealth is used as an indicator of preexisting vulnerability (Assaad et al. , 2009; AlAzzawi, 2010; AlAzzawi and Hlasny, 2019b; Hlasny and AlAzzawi, 2019).…”

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“…6. Family wealth based on the households' accumulated durable-asset wealth is used as an indicator of preexisting vulnerability (Assaad et al, 2009;AlAzzawi, 2010;AlAzzawi and Hlasny, 2019b;Hlasny and AlAzzawi, 2019). Following McKenzie (2005), we develop a one-dimensional index of wealth, w, from the first component in the principal component analysis (PCA) of households' all available durable assets.…”

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Youth labor market vulnerabilities: evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

AlAzzawi

Hlásny

2022

IJM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of employment vulnerability among youth in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, and their propensity to transition to better jobs over time.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on longitudinal data from Labor Market Panel Surveys spanning 6–20 years. The authors use transition matrices to examine the prevalence of transitions between labor market statuses for the same individuals over time, distinguishing between youth and non-youth, and men and women, as well as multinomial logistic regressions that control for individual and family background, including previous labor market status, family wealth and parental education.FindingsThe paper finds that youth in all three countries were disadvantaged in terms of labor market outcomes with most young men in particular ending up in vulnerable jobs while women of all ages were most likely to exit the labor market all together, unless they had formal jobs. Moreover, youth who started out in the labor market in a vulnerable job were unlikely to move to a better-quality job over time. Family wealth, parental education and father's occupation were found to be important determinants of labor market outcomes and vulnerability, even after a long period of work experience.Social implicationsThe paper finds that wealth effects, parental education and occupation effects follow workers throughout their careers, implying low equality of opportunity and inter-generational and lifetime mobility.Originality/valueThe findings indicate worsening labor market outcomes over time, heavily influenced by family background. High levels of vulnerable employment persistence, regardless of skill and experience, reinforce the importance of initial labor market outcome on the quality of lifetime employment prospects.

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Youth labor market vulnerabilities: evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

AlAzzawi

Hlásny

2022

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“…Thus, the codification we adopt assigns poor quality scores to the lowest wages. This dimension is generally taken into account in measuring job quality in several studies, but in different ways (Roushdy and Assaad, 2008; Assaad et al , 2009; Dueñas et al , 2010).…”

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“…Based on Egyptian data and still in a microeconomic approach, Assaad et al (2009) showed that job quality from a general point of view deteriorated over the 1998–2006 period. It has been noted that this quality has improved among salaried workers in the private sector and even more so in the small business sector.…”

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Job quality dynamic in Benin

Kponou

Kamga

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the job quality in Benin between 2007 and 2011. To do this, the study constructed a multidimensional measure of job quality and identified the determinants of the quality of the job. The measure adopted by the authors includes four dimensions: wages; extra-wage benefits and regularity of employment; conditions and career opportunities; and, finally, social security. Two methods, including the construction of measure of job quality and the estimation of determinants of the job quality index, were used to test the robustness of the effects. The results show that the quality of job improved slightly between 2007 and 2011 and that factors such as experience, the type of contract, the level of education, the formal character of the company and the work hours explain the job quality of workers in Benin. Design/methodology/approach The measure adopted by the authors includes four dimensions: wages; extra-wage benefits and regularity of employment; conditions and career opportunities; and, finally, social security. Two methods, including the construction of measure of job quality and the estimation of determinants of the job quality index, were used to test the robustness of the effects. Findings The results show that the quality of job improved slightly between 2007 and 2011 and that factors such as experience, the type of contract, the level of education, the formal character of the company and the work hours explain the job quality of workers in Benin. Originality/value The contribution of this study lies in its analytical approach and in the fact that it reinforces the knowledge that exists on this theme, which is still little studied in African countries.

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Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Panel Data for Egypt

AlAzzawi

Said

2012

Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea

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This chapter investigates the dynamics of poverty in Egypt using monetary and non-monetary panel data, and the impact of trade liberalization on poor and low waged workers. We find a relatively low level of economic mobility in both income and non-income indicators, with the majority of those who were ''poor'' in 1998, whether in the monetary or non-monetary dimension, remaining so by 2006. Trade reform in the form of lower tariffs and increased export promotion exerted a small positive influence on the incomes of the poor; however, this came at the expense of greater informalization of workers and higher incidence of low quality jobs. We also find that private sector employment and gender have a much more important role in segregating the labor market.

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Measuring and operationalizing job quality in Egypt

Cited by 7 publications

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Youth labor market vulnerabilities: evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

Youth labor market vulnerabilities: evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

Job quality dynamic in Benin

Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Panel Data for Egypt

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