Female Employment and Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Southern Europe

London GCRF Workshop at SOAS, 9th and 10th June 2017

Participants

Parvin Alizadeh Subject Area Coordinator and Lecturer, Boston University, Study Abroad, London Programpalizad@bu.edu

Parvin Alizadeh worked as a lecturer in economics at Keynes College, Kent University, UK between 1988 and 1990 and was subsequently a principal Lecturer of Economics at London Metropolitan University where she worked for 17 years. Parvin also taught as an Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, Ohio, USA from 2000 to 2003. Since 2009 she has been teaching at Boston University, Study Abroad, London Program. Parvin has

also worked as a consultant for a number of international organisations including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank. Her main research interests are in the fields of women’s empowerment and the economic development of the Middle East, with a focus on Iran.

Güneş Aşik Assistant Professor, Economics Department, TOBB Economics and Technology Universitygunesasik@gmail.com

Güneş Aşik’s research interests include development and labour economics and female employment. She previously worked at the Undersecretariat of Treasury of Turkey, the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) and has interned at several international organisations including the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She has been involved in several research projects with the IMF, the World Bank, the International Labour Organisation and Oxfam. Güneş holds an MA degree

in International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard University and a PhD degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Ragui Assaad Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesotaassaad@umn.edu

Ragui Assaad is a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, where he chairs the Global Policy area and co-chairs the Master of Development Practice programme. He has been a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) since 1994 and currently serves as its thematic leader for Labor and Human Resource Development and as a member of its board of trustees. He is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. His current research focuses on education and labour markets in the Arab World.

Hannah Bargawi Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Lecturer in Economics, SOAShb19@soas.ac.uk

Dr Hannah Bargawi’s current research interests include gender and work in occupied Palestine, the links between macroeconomic policy-making and labour-market outcomes and the gendered impact of economic policies. Her regional expertise covers sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Before joining the Economics department, she worked at the Centre for Development Policy and Research at SOAS where she participated in

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numerous research and consultancy projects for international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, the ILO and the UN Development Program. Francesca Bettio Professor of Economics, University of Sienafrancesca.bettio@unisi.it

Francesca Bettio graduated from the University of Bologna and holds a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of expertise are labour economics, population studies and gender economics. She is the author or co-author of more than s0 publications including books, articles and research monographs on topics ranging from long-term and cyclical patterns of female employment and wage differentials to discrimination and occupational segregation, fertility in Mediterranean countries, intra-household bargaining, care work and sex work. Her latest publications concern violence

against women in relation to financial independence and the determinants of gender gaps in pension income.

Alma Boustati Second-year PhD candidate in SOAS633364@soas.ac.uk

Alma is currently working on female labour force participation and gendered labour market outcome in Jordan. She holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut. Her research subjects include applied microeconomics, labour and gender economics in addition to topics in development, especially concerning the Middle East.

Chandru P. Chandrasekhar Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhicpchand@gmail.com

Professor Chandrasekhar is the co-author of Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia (Orient Longman, 2001), The Market that Failed: A Decade of Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in India (Leftword Books, 2002) and Promoting ICT for Human Development: India (Elsevier, 2004). He is a regular columnist for Frontline (titled Economic Perspectives) and Business Line (titled Macroscan).

Mouna Cherkaoui Professor of Economics, Mohamed V University, Rabatcherkaoui.mouna@hotmail.com

Mouna Cherkaoui has been Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences at the University Mohamed V in Rabat Agdal since 1989. She holds a Masters and a PhD in Economics with a specialisation in international trade and finance from Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and was previously a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Research and Policy Analysis on gender (GERPA) of the World Bank and has served as an Advisor to the

Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Her research interests include international economic issues, poverty and inequality. She has conducted research and consultations for various national and international organisations on topics such as international trade, pro-poor growth and migration.

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Moha Ennaji President and Co-founder of International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fèsmennaji2002@yahoo.fr

Moha Ennaji is one of Morocco’s leading academics with research interests in North African culture and gender issues, language and migration. He is the president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures. His most recent publications are: Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe (Palgrave, 2016, Editor), Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe (Palgrave, 2015), Minorities, Women and the State in North Africa (Red Sea Press 2015, Editor). Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa (Routledge, 2014),

Language and Gender in the Mediterranean Region, IJSL Issue 190, Editor (The Hague, 2008) and Women in the Middle East (Routledge, 2010) and Gender and Violence in the Middle East (Routledge, 2011, both co-edited with F. Sadiqi.

Abdesselam Fazouane Director, National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Rabatfazouanea@yahoo.fr

Abdesselam Fazouane is a Statistical Engineer at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) in Morocco. He received a master's degree and doctorate in demography at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He practised teaching and research in statistics and demography at INSEA. At the same time, he has continued his research by joining the IDRC-funded MIMAP team on poverty, examining the links between poverty and demographic behaviour, studying gender statistics and the

promotion of opportunities for young Moroccans. This team plays a central role in shaping the Moroccan government's agenda for gender equality. Since 2013, he has been Director and Professor at INSEA.

Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi jayatijnu@gmail.com

Jayati Ghosh was born in 1955 and educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD. She has a wide range of research interests, including globalisation, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy as well as issues related to gender and development and the implications of recent economic growth in China and India. She has authored and/or edited a dozen books and more than 160

scholarly articles. Recent books include Demonetisation Decoded: A Critique of India’s Monetary Experiment (with CP Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik, Routledge 2017) and the Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (co-edited with Erik Reinert and Rainer Kattel, Edward Elgar 2016).

Hassan Hakimian Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Director, London Middle East Institute and Reader in the Economics Department, SOAShh2@soas.ac.uk

Hassan Hakimian is Director of the London Middle East Institute and a Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS, University of London. Dr Hakimian's research focuses on the MENA economies, specifically human resources and demographic change, labour markets, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of Labour Transfer and Economic Development (1990), co-editor of The State and Global Change (2000 with Ziba Moshaver), Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA (2003 with Jeff Nugent) and Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions (2014 with Parvin Alizadeh). Dr Hakimian is a founding member and currently the

President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) and a Research Fellow and member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He is the founder and series editor for the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa series, which he launched in 2003.

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Ipek Ilkkaracan Professor of Economics, Istanbul Technical Universityilkkaracan@itu.edu.tr

In addition to her position at Istanbul Technical University, Professor Ilkkaracan is AssociateDirector of the ITU Women’s Studies Center and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute in New York. She holds a BA in political science from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, NYC. Her research areas include the macroeconomics of unemployment and wages, labour market inequalities, work-life balance policies, time use, the care economy and sustainable growth. She serves as an associate editor of Feminist Economics and an elected board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She served on the Board of the Middle Eastern Economics Association from 2011 to 14 and as

the country expert on Turkey in the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE) from 2012 to 2015. Ipek is also a founding member of the Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-Europe network, Women for Women’s Human Rights and the Women’s Labour and Employment Initiative (KEIG) Platform in Turkey.

Susan Joekes Visiting Senior Fellow, Gender Institute, LSEjoekessusan@gmail.com

Susan Joekes is an independent researcher particularly interested in the economics of gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. She has degrees in Persian with Arabic from Edinburgh and development economics from the University of Oxford and is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow of the LSE Gender Institute. She was a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and a staff economist at ICRW, Washington DC. From 2000 to 2012 (and in Cairo for the last six years) she worked with Canada’s International Development Research Centre, managing programmes on trade, employment, SMEs, entrepreneurship and private sector development and competition policy.

Naila Kabeer Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor of Gender and International Development, Gender Institute/Department of International Development, LSEN.Kabeer@lse.ac.uk

Naila Kabeer has extensive experience in research, teaching and advisory work in the fields of poverty, gender, labour markets, livelihoods, social protection and citizenship. Her main work has been concentrated in South and South East Asia. Her most recent publications include Organizing Women in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak (Zed Press) and Women’s Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Labour Markets and Enterprise Development (http://grow.research.mcgill.ca/pubs/GWP-01-2017.pdf). She is currently engaged in research on gender and labour market dynamics in Bangladesh and

West Bengal funded by ESRC/DFID.

Uma Kambhampati Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of Readingu.s.kambhampati@reading.ac.uk

Uma’s research over the years has encompassed a number of areas: applied industrial economics, child labour and schooling, well-being and happiness and institutions and development. Her publications include a range of journal papers in well-respected, peer-reviewed journals including World Development, the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Development Studies among others. She is on the editorial team of two journals: Feminist Economics and the European Journal of Development Research.

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Ece Kocabicak Associate Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University e.kocabicak1@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Ece Kocabicak is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her work focuses on varieties of patriarchies and capitalisms, the relationship between gender and class-based inequalities and the significance of political collective subjects for social transformation. She further examines the processes and factors that sustain gender-based exclusionary strategies in Muslim majority countries. Previous research has included the relationship between economic development and gender inequality, the implications of technological changes for household production and gender-based segregation in the labour market.

Massoud Karshenas Principal Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor of Economics, SOASmk@soas.ac.uk

Massoud Karshenas is Professor of Economics at the Economics Department of the SOAS, University of London, a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS and a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the London Middle East Institute and the ERF and was formerly a Professor of Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the external research coordinator for research on social policy in the Middle East at the United Nations Institute for Social Development in

Geneva.

Maryse Louis General Manager, FEMISE Associationm.louis@femise.org

Dr Maryse Louis is the General Manager of FEMISE (based in Marseille, France), a network of more than 95 members’ institutes from the Euro-Med region that aims to reinforce dialogue between two shores of the Mediterranean through conducting research on issues of relevance to the region, organising debates, conferences and workshops and disseminating the outputs to policy makers. Dr Louis is also the Programs Manager at the Economic Research Forum (Cairo, Egypt). She holds a PhD in Economics from Aix-Marseille University, France. Her main research interests are on migration and refugees’ issues, inequalities and labour markets and she is currently working on innovation indicators.

Antigone Lyberaki Professor of Economics, Panteion Universityantiglib@gmail.com

Professor Lyberaki was an MP for To Potami, a political party of the liberal centre, between January and September 2015. She has a PhD in economics on Greek small and medium enterprises and an MPhil in Development Studies from Sussex University. She has been a visiting professor in New York (CUNY), Paris (EHESS) and the UK (LSE, IDS). Her research interests are SMEs, migration, ageing (Greek SHARE) and gender. She has been an activist and board member of Action Aid Hellas, with a special interest in Africa. She is currently on the board of Solidarity Now, an NGO active in providing solutions for the refugee problems in Greece.

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Mohamed Ali Marouani Associate Professor in Economics, University of Paris 1-Panthéon-SorbonneMohamed-Ali.Marouani@univ-paris1.fr

At his university Mohamed Ali Marouani is Deputy Director of the Development and Societies research unit, a member of the board of the Sorbonne Maghreb chair and Director of the Economic Expertise in Development Policies and Projects master’s programme. He is also a Research Fellow and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum, a Research Associate of DIAL (Paris-Dauphine University and Institute of Research for Development) and Secretary General of the Cercle des économistes Arabes. His research focuses on the impact of public policies on employment,

on migration and refugees and on the determinants of structural change in the MENA region.

Valentine M. Moghadam Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor, Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston v.moghadam@neu.edu

Valentine M. Moghadam also directs Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at Northeastern University, co-founded the Gender and Development Initiative (https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/internationalaffairs/gender-development-initiative/gender-development-initiative/), and was director of the International Affairs Program (Jan. 2012-July 2017). In addition to her academic career, she has been a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER in Helsinki (1990-95) and a section chief at UNESCO in Paris (2004-06). Professor Moghadam studies globalisation, development, revolutions and

social movements, and gender in the Middle East and North Africa. The author of Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998) and Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), among other publications, her current research focuses on prospects for women’s economic citizenship.

Paula Rodriguez-Modroño Professor, Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University Sevillepaula.rodriguez.mod@gmail.com

Paula Rodríguez-Modroño has a PhD in Economics from the University of Seville and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. She is Associate Professor in Economics at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on gender, development and economic history. Her research interests include gender and work, the economics of care and the gendered impacts of crisis and macroeconomic policies. She is currently leading the national project entitled ‘Employment crisis and transformations in gender inequalities’.

Lina Gálvez Muñoz Professor of History and Economic Institutions, Pablo de Olavide University Sevillelygalmun@upo.es

Lina Gálvez Muñoz has studied at the universities of Seville, Lyon and LSE, obtained her doctorate at the European University Institute and has been professor at the universities of Reading and Carlos III and a visiting professor at Oxford. She is currently Director of the Masters programme on Gender and Equality and on Human Rights, Interculturality and Development at Pablo de Olavide University. She is also the director of the gender observatory, GEP&DO (www.genderobservatory.com). She has coordinated a number of research projects and received several prizes such as the Ramón Carande prize for the best economic history article (1999), the Meridiana the Emilio Castelar Prize (2014) for her commitment with gender equality. www.linagalvez.com

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Özlem Onaran Professor of Economics, Director of Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre, University of GreenwichO.Onaran@greenwich.ac.uk

Özlem Onaran has conducted research on issues of inequality, wage-led growth, employment, globalisation, gender and crises and directed research projects for the UN International Labour Organisation, UNCTAD, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Foundation of European Progressive Studies, the Vienna Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Science Foundation and Unions21. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation of European Progressive Studies, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hans Boeckler Foundation, of the Policy Advisory Group of the Women’s Budget Group and of

the Coordinating Committee of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies and is a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has more than 70 articles in books and leading peer-reviewed journals.

Cem Oyvat Lecturer in Economics, Department of International Business and Economics, Business School, University of GreenwichC.Oyvat@greenwich.ac.uk

Cem Oyvat received his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2014 with a dissertation titled ‘Essays on the Evolution of Inequality’ that examined the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run and also the validity of the Kuznets hypothesis. His research interests include income distribution in the developing world, agrarian structures and land inequality, urbanisation, informal sector, gender economics, wage-led growth and the effects of globalisation on growth and distribution. He has published articles in World Development, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Francesco Pastore Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Law, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’francesco.pastore@unicampania.it

Francesco Pastore is also a research fellow of the IZA of Bonn and country lead for Italy of the Global Labor Organisation. In 2013, he qualified as Full Professor of Economic Policy and as Associate Professor of Economic Statistics. He is a member of the executive board of the Italian Association of Comparative Economic Studies. Previously, he was the Secretary of the Italian Association of Labor Economists. He earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Sussex. He has acted as a consultant for the ILO, UNESCO and the World Bank, among others. Gender inequality is one of his main research issues. He has written

extensively on the emergence of the gender wage gap among young people. His most recent paper was about applying propensity score matching and IPWRA to see whether the gender wage gap is disappearing after controlling for industrial segregation. He is currently working on the impact of international trade on the gender wage gap.

Fatima Sadiqi Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, University of Fezsadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr

Fatima Sadiqi’s work focuses on women’s issues in modern North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean world. She is author and editor of numerous volumes and journal issues including Moroccan Feminist Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and Women’s Movements in the Post-‘Arab Spring’ North Africa (2016). Fatima Sadiqi is a member of many national and international scholarly and policy-making boards. She has served as Director General of the Fez Festival of Sacred Music and as an Administrative Board Member of the Royal Institute of the Amazigh Language and Culture (IRCAM). Her work has

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been supported by numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Women’s History.

Fadime Sahin PhD student at SOAS645393@soas.ac.uk

Fadime works under the supervision of Dr Hannah Bargawi. Her interests lie broadly in information and communication technologies, women’s labour force participation and women and development. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Richmond University and is currently working as a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary, University of London.

Nisha Srivastava Department of Economics, University of Allahabadnisha2000@gmail.com

Before joining the University of Allahabad, Nisha Srivastava worked with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), New Delhi, where she was Head of the Vulnerability Analysis unit. Her research interests include issues of women’s education, employment and empowerment, poverty, globalisation and issues related to development. She has worked on projects with several national and international organisations including the ESRC, UK, Planning Commission, UNDP, World Bank, IFAD, JPIC, and IDRC among others. She is actively involved in working with grass-root organisations that seek to empower women and marginalised social groups.

Ravi Srivastava Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor of Economics in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru Universityravisriv@gmail.com

Currently Professor of Economics in Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ravi Srivastava was previously a member of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), which submitted a dozen reports and made wide-ranging recommendations on all aspects of policy related to informal sector enterprises and informal labour. His main areas of research include the informal economy, social protection, rural and urban labour markets and labour migration. In 2009, he was awarded the V. V. Giri Memorial Award for research on migration. He was the President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics in 2015.

Platon Tinios Assistant Professor, University of Pireasptinios@gmail.com

Platon Tinios is an economist and assistant professor at the University of Piraeus. He was educated in Egypt, Greece and the UK, studying economics at the Universities of Cambridge (MA, PhD) and Oxford (MPhil). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specialising in the economic analysis of social policy. He was a member of the EU Social Protection Committee from 2000 to 2004 and has participated in IMF Technical Assistance missions in the areas of social expenditure and pensions. In 2015/6 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE. His research interests

include pensions, ageing populations, gender, social policy and the economics of insurance and public finance.

Jackie Wahba Professor of Economics, Southampton UniversityJ.Wahba@soton.ac.uk

Jackline Wahba is a member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton. She is an economist with substantial experience in international migration and labour markets. She has published in

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several leading economics journals and leads the migration strand within the ESRC-funded Centre for Population Change (CPC) at Southampton. She has been an advisor to several international organisations, including the EC, World Bank and OECD. She is also a member of the Economic Research Forum Board of Trustees. She is a Research Fellow of ERF, IZA and CReAM and the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of Development and Migration.

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