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Ahmed Elsayed

    IZA and American University in Cairo

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.

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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

Published Articles

  • Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 36, No. 1

    Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

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