We investigate the relationship between remittances, financial deepening and the growth of the Lebanese economy using quarterly data from 1993 to 2011. Our results provide strong support for the theoretical contention that ...

This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most ...

This paper investigates gender pay inequality in the labor market of a developing country. Our empirical investigation uses data derived from a sample of employees in the Lebanese banking sector for the years 2008 and 2014. ...

Using a nationally representative sample of employees and workplaces from Statistics Canadaís Workplace Employee Survey (WES) 1999-2005, we provide new evidence on the determinants of vacation leave and its relationship ...

The causal relationship between electricity consumption and growth in Lebanon is examined using aggregate employment in a trivariate setting for the period 1980–2011. We test the main hypothesis that electricity is an input ...

This paper investigates the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and gross domestic product in the Middle East and North Africa region using World Bank data covering the period 1980 to 2010 on the eve of the Arab ...

This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) rates in manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The empirical ...

In the context of the Arab Spring, which started in 2011 and overcame the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, this paper examines the growth effects of financial development, controlling for distinct macroeconomic ...

This paper focuses on the finance-development nexus investigating the role of financial deepening and trade openness in general and several macroeconomic variables in the economic development of Kenya. Using a vector ...

We examine the validity of the guns-versus-butter hypothesis in the pre-Arab Spring era. Using panel data from 1995 to 2011 – the eve of the Arab uprisings – we find no evidence that increased security needs as measured ...