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The Impact of the Palestinian Labor Law of 2000 on Youth Employment

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  • Edward Sayre

    (University of Southern Mississippi)

  • Yousef Daoud
  • Mary Kraetsch

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Unemployment protection legislation is often created in a way that benefits workers who already have jobs and harms those who are new entrants to the labor force. Youth in the Palestinian Territories, as with youth across the Middle East, experience school to work transitions that have become increasingly prolonged. While some of the increasing delay certainly has its roots in the macroeconomic and political uncertainties that have plagued the Palestinian Territories, some may be due to the introduction of a new Palestinian Labor Law. This paper attempts to determine the impact of the Palestinian Labor Law of 2000 on the unemployment duration for Palestinian youth. Our analysis finds a relationship between the introduction of the law and longer unemployment duration among youth.

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  • Edward Sayre & Yousef Daoud & Mary Kraetsch, 2010. "The Impact of the Palestinian Labor Law of 2000 on Youth Employment," Working Papers 574, Economic Research Forum, revised 12 Jan 2010.
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