WOMEN, WORK AND WELFARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: THE ROLE OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICIES

• Forewords (Gary Becker, Ismail Serageldin & Inger Andersen); Preface (Soukeina Bouraoui); Acknowledgments; Glossary and List of Acronyms; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction and Overview (Massoud Karshenas, Valentine M Moghadam & Nadereh Chamlou); Socio-Demographics:Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey: A Comparative Study (Aysit Tansel & Yousef Daoud); The Impact of Women's Education on Economic Development in Turkey (Nil Demet, Gungor Ayadim, Denz Gungor & Aysit Tansel); Intra-household Resource Allocations in Egypt: Effects on Child Work and Schooling (Rania Roushdy & Soiliou Daw Namoro); Gender, Resources across the Life Course, and Cognitive Functioning in Egypt (Kathryn Yount); Female-Headed Households in Jordan: Demographic, Social, and Economic Characteristics (Hussein M Abu Farash); Women's Entrepreneurship: Obstacles, Potentials, and Future Prospects:Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt (Alia ElMehdi); Women Entrepreneurs in Lebanon (Kamal Hamdan, Redha Hamdan, Lara Batlouni & Nisrine Mansour); Women Entrepreneurs in Turkey (Semsa Ozar); Women Entrepreneurs in Algeria: A Quantitative Study (Soheil Chennouf & Taieb Hafsi); Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran (Roksana Bahramitash & Hadi Salehi Esfahani); Labor, Liberalization, and Gender Discrimination:The Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa Region: The Role of Education and Social Norms in Amman, Cairo, and Sana'a (N Chamlou, S Muzi & H Ahmed); Wage Differential and Employment Sector Choice for Palestinian Men and Women: An Empirical Assessment (Ruba Shanti, Youssef Daoud & Awad Mataria); Women and Work in Dubai City: An Exploration in Institutional Barriers and Potentials (Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam, Farroukh Giahi & Rabia Naguib); Importing Equality? Trade Liberalization and Gender Discrimination in Egypt (Shireen AlAzzawi); Trade in Services: MENA's Viability as an Offshore Destination Due to Its Female Talent Pool (Nadereh Chamlou & Desiree van Gorp); Gender and Poverty Impacts of Taxation Policy in the MENA Region: A Comparative Analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia (Ismael Fofana, Erwin Corongi, Rim Chatti, Sami Bibi & Omar Bouazouni); Gender and Public Policies:Family Planning and Declining Fertility in Rural Iran: The Impact of Rural Health Clinics (Djavad Salehi Isfahani, M Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi & Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi); GCC Labour Market Policies (Emilie Rutledge, Fatima Al-Shamsi, Yahia Bassioni & Hend Al-Sheik); Women's Access to Justice in the Middle East and North Africa: An Empirical Investigation (Nadereh Chamlou, Alejandro Ponce, Juan Botero, Maliheh Birjandi-Feriz & Leila Hanafi);

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