This paper presents findings of a pilot study, which evaluates financial ratios in the Indonesian construction firms. The study is an extension of a larger study that is an attempt to explore strategic practices for Indonesian construction firms that generates a competitive advantage. The...

This paper deals with the relative impact of family background and living standards on the educational attainment of Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Applying an ordered probit model to micro-level data, the paper shows that parent's education and occupations exert decisive...

The paper has two objectives. The first is to review salient trends in the fertility of women, their education, formal and informal participation and status over the past two decades. The second is to examine at the micro level the determinants of labor participation for a set of Arab countries....

This paper utilizes a schematic economic framework in order to evaluate the consistency of population and labor market policies with the mainstay goal of reducing dependence on foreign labor in GCC countries. It reviews recent demographic, labor and budgetary trends and develops a simple...

Research conducted in this paper has two objectives. First, to review recent aggregate trends in Arab female employment and its link to fertility. Second, to apply a two-step econometric model to micro data sets of four Arab countries in order to estimate the impact of fertility and its...

Our research has two objectives. The first objective is to review the historical evolution of the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and to demonstrate how their conception and evolution was in fact an integral part of an overall prescription for the cyclical economic...