Labib Shami is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at Western Galilee College, a senior researcher at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, and a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Haifa. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Haifa and is a Research Fellow at GLO (Global Labor Organization, Germany) His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary policy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), informal employment, non-observed economies, and tax evasion. Dr. Shami has also authored two guidebooks: Fundamentals of Economics for finance students (2019, in Hebrew) and Introduction to Statistics for finance students (2017, in Hebrew).