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Labour force projections: Egypt anticipates a resumption of demographic pressures

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Professor Ragui Assaad researches Egyptian labour force growth as a result of the coming of age of the ‘echo generation’.

Egyptian youths born into the ‘echo generation’ of 2006–2014 are not yet of working age, but when they do enter the labour market there will be a vast increase in the supply of workers. Professor Ragui Assaad, of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in the US, has been estimating the effects of this increase. […]

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