Youths’ Employment Vulnerability amidst a Lingering Crisis: Evidence from the Middle East

Shireen Alazawi () and Vladimir Hlasny
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Shireen Alazawi: Santa Clara University

Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2023, vol. 247, issue 4, 155-186

Abstract: This study estimates the impacts of the lingering COVID crisis on workers’ outcomes in four Middle East and North African (MENA) countries –Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia– using panel microdata from ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitors (February ‘20-September ‘21). Workers’ employment statuses were assessed using transition matrices and multinomial logistic models with quasi fixed effects. We confirm that strict COVID regulatory regimes have negative effects on employment outcomes of most groups of workers, but the effects cannot be consistently ranked between age cohorts and genders across the four countries. In 2021, men’s employment prospects gradually improved, but women remained largely excluded from work opportunities. Youths trailed non-youths throughout the pandemic, perpetuating existing inequalities along sex and age dimensions, but also vis-à-vis workers’ socioeconomic status represented by their education and employment type.

Keywords: Employment vulnerability; Youth; COVID-19; Economic crisis; MENA. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J62 N35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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