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Issues and traps in labor statistics in the Arab World with a special focus on informal labor
Data and statistics on labor and employment in the Arab trade unions’ literature are abundant. However, much of them are marred by issues that do not help towards clarifying the nature of the mainstream labor relations in the Arab world,Read more…





