Pilot for survey on labour market dualism and welfare preferences in Egypt

Citizen attitudes to welfare provision in the Global South have important implications for the ability of policymakers in developing countries to reform welfare regimes that are often inefficient, inequitable and unsustainable. A key feature of welfare regimes and labour markets in less developed countries is labour market dualism: a division of workers into relatively privileged “insiders” and marginalized “outsiders”. To date, however, there is little rigorous empirical research on the role of dualistic labour structures in shaping welfare preferences outside the OECD. This project aims to improve our understanding of such preferences in the Global South using evidence from Egypt, an important case with particularly deep dualist structures. The current registration is for the piloting of the survey questionnaire.