Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

2013 ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Campante ◽  
D. Chor
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
The Arab Spring

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak labor market conditions. This pattern is especially pronounced in those countries that saw significant upheaval during the first year of the Arab Spring uprisings. We argue that the lack of adequate economic opportunities for an increasingly educated populace can help us understand episodes of regime instability such as the Arab Spring.

scholarly journals Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe R Campante ◽  
Davin Chor
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The Arab Spring

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak labor market conditions. This pattern is especially pronounced in those countries that saw significant upheaval during the first year of the Arab Spring uprisings. We argue that the lack of adequate economic opportunities for an increasingly educated populace can help us understand episodes of regime instability such as the Arab Spring.

scholarly journals The Future of the Arab Spring

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
Mohd Yaseen Gada
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Civic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Technology Startups

The Arab Spring, which began in December 2010, mobilized the Arab massesto depose once-uncontestable autocratic rulers. Many observers predicted thatthis regional uprising would move the Arab world from autocracy to democracyin no time. However, the present scenario speaks to the contrary. Althoughmany are struggling to understand its long-term effects, one thing iscertain: This ongoing event has engendered a significant change in the people’ssociopolitical awareness. Consequently, many writers have approachedit from various social, political, economic, and religious aspects.The book under review seeks to examine and explore this subjectthrough a unique and different aspect: the contribution of “civic entrepreneurship,” defined as an innovative, non-violent, and peaceful “citizen-driveneffort to mobilize communities to respond to opportunities or crises in orderto advance the collective good” (p. 2). In its seven chapters, the author emphasizesthe revolution’s non-violent roots under three main sections: “CivicEntrepreneurship in Politics and Society, Civic Entrepreneurship in Art andCulture, and Civic Entrepreneurship in Technology Startups” (p. 3). Thefirst three chapters attempt to form the theoretical foundation for her mainargument ...

scholarly journals The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Using Data

Using data on adults’ cognitive skills from 19 countries, this paper shows that labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition impact workers’ long-term skill development. Workers who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-25 have lower skills at ages 36-59. Unemployment rates at ages 26-35 do not have such an effect. Skill inequality is affected: those with less educated parents experience most of the negative effects. Using German panel data on skills, I document a mechanism related to heterogeneous skill development across firms: young workers at large firms experience higher skill growth than those at small firms.

Long-term Health Consequences of Adverse Labor Market Conditions at Time of Leaving Education: Evidence from West German Panel Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp M. Lersch ◽  
Marita Jacob ◽  
Karsten Hank
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
State Level ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Health Deterioration

Using longitudinal survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study ( N = 3,003 respondents with 22,165 individual-year observations) and exploiting temporal and regional variation in state-level unemployment rates in West Germany, we explore differences in trajectories of individuals’ self-rated health over a period of up to 23 years after leaving education under different regional labor market conditions. We find evidence for immediate positive effects of contextual unemployment when leaving education on individuals’ health. We find no evidence for generally accelerated or decelerated health deterioration when leaving education in high-unemployment contexts. We find, however, that individual unemployment experience when leaving education is associated with worse health and with more accelerated health deterioration in high-unemployment contexts. The cumulative experience of unemployment after leaving education does not mediate the influence of early labor market experiences for long-term health outcomes. In addition, our analyses indicate no gender differences in these results.

Cracking national integration after the events (the Arab Spring) and its impact On regional stability

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhannad Al Janabi Al Janabi
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Political Media ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Arab Spring

Since late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab region has witnessed mass protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain and other countries that have been referred to in the political, media and other literature as the Arab Spring. These movements have had a profound effect on the stability of the regimes Which took place against it, as leaders took off and contributed to radical reforms in party structures and public freedoms and the transfer of power, but it also contributed to the occurrence of many countries in an internal spiral, which led to the erosion of the state from the inside until it became a prominent feature of the Arab) as is the case in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq.

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