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Still the Employer of Choice: Evolution of Public Sector Employment in Egypt

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  • Ghada Barsoum

    (The American University in Cairo)

  • Dina Abdalla

    (Economic Researcher)

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The public sector in Egypt provides relatively generous benefits, particularly when compared to the working conditions in informal private sector employment. For this reason, it has been described as the employer of choice among youth in Egypt. This paper updates the analysis on this issue by exploring the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) 2018 data. Focusing on those employed in the public sector, the paper compares three age groups. The analysis over time shows that the public sector is becoming more educated, slightly more feminized, and is aging. Women, however, have not reached gender parity in public sector employment, despite a slight increase in their proportion among more recent cohorts.

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  • Ghada Barsoum & Dina Abdalla, 2020. "Still the Employer of Choice: Evolution of Public Sector Employment in Egypt," Working Papers 1386, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Apr 2020.
    • Handle: RePEc:erg:wpaper:1386
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    1. Shireen AlAzzawi & Vladimir Hlasny, 2020. "Vulnerable employment of Egyptian, Jordanian, and Tunisian youth: Trends and determinants," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-166, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Yusuke Kawamura, 2022. "Public Sector Employment as a Social Welfare Policy: The “Social Contract†and Failed Job Creation for Youth in Egypt," Contemporary Review of the Middle East, , vol. 9(1), pages 31-50, March.

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