Inequality of opportunity and (unequal) opportunities in the youth labour market: how is the Arab world different?

Ralitza Dimova; Karim Stephan

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Inequality of opportunity and (unequal) opportunities in the youth labour market: how is the Arab world different?

Ralitza Dimova and Karim Stephan

Technical brief (Work4Youth), no. 6, ILO

2016

Abstract

youth employment

equal employment opportunity

skill requirements

labour demand

labour market segmentation

Tunisia

Arab countries

Egypt

Jordan

The focus of the Technical Brief is on assessing to what extent high graduate unemployment is related to inequality of opportunity or rather to deeper structural characteristics that create mismatch between the skills demanded in the market and those supplied by labour market entrants.

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Title: Inequality of opportunity and (unequal) opportunities in the youth labour market; how is the Arab world different?
Creators: Ralitza Dimova
Karim Stephan
Contributors: International Labour Organization. Employment Policy Department.
Publisher: ILO; Geneva
Date published: 2016
Series: Technical brief (Work4Youth); no. 6
Number of pages: 28 p.
Language: English
Asset Type: brief
Record Identifier: 995219346402676
Table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and empirical specification -- 3. Data and descriptive statistics -- 4. Econometric results -- 5. Further discussion and supporting demand-side statistics -- 6. Conclusion and policy implications.