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The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing (English)

This paper examines the evolution of the gender employment gap post COVID-19 in the Egyptian manufacturing sector, using a unique firm-level data set. The findings show that the COVID-19 shock led to a slight improvement in the gender employment gap, both in absolute and relative terms, driven by a larger reduction in male employment compared to that for female employment. The heterogeneity analysis shows that exporting firms and firms in industrial...
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El-Haddad,Amirah; Ishak,Phoebe Saad Wasfy.

The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10646; COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099832312142329811

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