Human capital
Subtitle: population economics in the Middle East
By: edited by Ismail Sirageldin.
Contributors: Sirageldin, Ismail Abdel-Hamid.; Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781860647956
Subjects: Middle East -- Population -- Economic aspects.; Moyen-Orient -- Population -- Aspect économique.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Demographic transitions and economic performance in the Middle East and North Africa / Jeffrey G. Williamson and Tarik M. Yousef; title: New challenges in the demography of the Arab region / Hoda Rashad and Zeinab Khadr; title: Poverty in the Arab world : the role of inequality and growth / Ali A. Ali and lbrahim A. Elbadawi; title: Budget deficit, renewable resource gap, and human resource development in oil economies / Yousef Al-Ebraheem and Ismail Sirageldin; title: Population and education prospects in the Arab region / Anne Valia Goujon; title: Population, human capital, and economic growth in Iran / Djavad Saleh-Isfahani; title: Econometric analysis of fertility dynamics in Turkey / Ali C. Tasiran; title: Globalization and unemployment in MENA / Jalaleddin Jalali and Farzaneh Roudi; title: Female labor supply in Egypt : participation and hours of work / Ragui Assaad and Fatma El-Hamidi; title: Differentials in income-generating activities and consumption expenditures between female and male-headed households in Turkey / İsmet Koç; title: General versus vocational high schools and labor market outcomes in Turkey / Aysıt Tansel; title: Rationality of migration / İnsan Tunalı; title: A macroeconometric model of the effects of migrant remittances in Mediterranean countries / Nicholas P. Glytsos; title: Big cities and migration : evidence from Egypt / Barry McCormick and Jackline Wahba.