Documents & Reports
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Female-Worker Representation Effect : Gender Pay Variation in the Kuwaiti Civil Service (English)
Kuwaiti women working in Kuwait’s civil service earn, on average, 18 percent less than Kuwaiti men. Using a unique data set of all Kuwaiti nationals working in Kuwait’s civil service, this paper analyzes...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10509 Document Date: June 27, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ajwad,Mohamed Ihsan,Bilo,Simon,Nguyen,Ha,AlAnsari,Ebtesam,AlHumaidan,Lama,Alrashidi,Faleh M F E
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School Is Closed : Simulating the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic–Related School Disruptions in Kuwait (English)
The schooling disruption caused by COVID-19 in Kuwait is among the longest in the world. Using the similarities between the schooling disruptions due to the Gulf War and the schooling disruption due to...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10035 Document Date: May 5, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bilo,Simon,Ajwad,Mohamed Ihsan,AlAnsari,Ebtesam,AlHumaidan,Lama,Alrashidi,Faleh M F E
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The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data (English)
This paper estimates the long-term impacts of schooling disruptions on private returns to schooling in Kuwait. It applies an instrumental variables approach to estimate the private returns to schooling...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9641 Document Date: April 26, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bilo,Simon,Ajwad,Mohamed Ihsan,Alansari,Ebtesam,Alhumaidan,Lama,Alrashidi,Faleh M F E