Ahmed Elsayed
Ahmed Elsayed is a Research Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Director of Research at J-PAL MENA at AUC. He is also a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, and at the Economic Research Forum (ERF, Cairo/Egypt).
Before joining AUC and J-PAL in 2022, he spent 8 years as a Senior Researcher at IZA where he was also the Deputy Director of the special program area “Gender, Growth, and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC)”.
His main research interests are in development economics, applied micro-econometrics, migration, and labour economics. He is particularly interested in the intersection between research and policy in the area of development economics.
Related Publications
G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 41
The Jobs of the World Database: A New Dataset on Labour Markets of Developing Countries
G²LM|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 12
Labour Market Effects of COVID-19 in Developing Countries and Policy Response
G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 58
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 69
Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project