Romero, Jose ManuelAvila Parra, ClementeGordina, Alexandra2024-07-022024-07-022024-07-02https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41815This 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-USCC BY 3.0 IGOMICROFINANCEJOBSDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTHSDG 8Working Paper (Numbered Series)World Bank10.1596/41815