Will the radical political changes Egypt has gone through since early 2011 have an impact on
emigration from the country? This all depends on young Egyptian adults, who are the potential
migrants of tomorrow. In order to understand the consequences of the Egyptian revolution might for
migration, a questionnaire survey was conducted amongst Egyptian youth in 2013. The objective of
this paper is to analyse the Egyptian labour market together with Egyptian migration to see whether
changing conditions in the labour market, in particular after the revolution of 25 January 2011, may
affect migration. This study is divided into three parts. The first analyses recent trends – from 2007 to
2011 – of the labour market and in particular the evolution of the labour force in terms of participation
rate and unemployment rate according to gender, age group and educational level. The second part
outlines the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Egyptian migrants, in general, and
according to region of migration (Gulf Cooperation Countries and other Arab countries as opposed to
OECD countries). It also presents an analysis of unemployment against the education and skill levels
of Egyptian migrants. Finally, the last part presents the findings of a survey on orientation towards
migration of Egyptian youth. This survey was designed by the Migration Policy Centre and was
conducted through phone interviews by the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) in
2013.