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Jamaica Jobs Diagnostic

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dc.contributor.authorRomero, Jose Manuel
dc.contributor.authorAvila Parra, Clemente
dc.contributor.authorGordina, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-02T20:57:11Z
dc.date.available2024-07-02T20:57:11Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-02
dc.description.abstractThis report seeks to identify Jamaica’s main jobs problems, analyze their underlying causes, and provide policy options to foster debate on how to improve job outcomes. Utilizing a diagnostic approach, the assessment focuses on identifying deep-rooted jobs problems in Jamaica by considering its current level of development and conducting a comprehensive benchmarking exercise. In this framing, jobs problems (e.g., large informal sector) are viewed as symptoms that are driven by underlying factors. Hence, identifying jobs problems is insufficient to draw clear policy recommendations per se. The authors analyze potential causes, including policy fundamentals such as macroeconomic stability, and determine the likely critical factors obstructing improved jobs outcomes. Our assessment takes a holistic and iterative approach, by exploiting the data available, with its limitations, and consulting with sector specialists and many public and private sector stakeholders. This work has built on, expanded, and, in instance, informed recent work by the World Bank in Jamaica. The result of this exercise is a set of proposed evidence-based policy priorities that can promote debate on how to unlock the creation of better and more inclusive jobs.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099710207022436976/IDU14d515bce1871e14cd71bd0010b8ddb3be6c9
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41815
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJobs Working Paper; Issue No. 83
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectMICROFINANCE
dc.subjectJOBS
dc.subjectDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectSDG 8
dc.titleJamaica Jobs Diagnosticen
dc.typeWorking Paper (Numbered Series)
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2024-07-02
okr.date.lastmodified2024-07-02T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeWorking Paper (Numbered Series)
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099710207022436976/IDU14d515bce1871e14cd71bd0010b8ddb3be6c9
okr.guid099710207022436976
okr.identifier.docmidIDU-4d515bce-871e-4cd7-bd00-0b8ddb3be6c9
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41815
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34359769
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34359769
okr.identifier.report192314
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryJamaica
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Microfinance
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitJOBS- CCSA - IBRD (HSPJB)
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