Soft Skills or Hard Cash? : What Works for Female Employment in Jordan?
Jordan faces extremely high levels of youth unemployment: 19 percent of male and 48 percent of female youth between the ages of 19 to 24 years old want to work but can't find jobs. For men, the transition from school to work is slow (on averag...
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Format: | Report |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329991468284338124/Soft-skills-or-hard-cash-What-works-for-female-employment-in-Jordan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26884 |
Summary: | Jordan faces extremely high levels of
youth unemployment: 19 percent of male and 48 percent of
female youth between the ages of 19 to 24 years old want to
work but can't find jobs. For men, the transition from
school to work is slow (on average 15 months), but for women
the school to work transition often never takes place. In
this context of high female unemployment and low female
labor force participation, the Jordanian government,
requested the World Bank's support to develop an
employment pilot targeting female community college
graduates in 2009. This pilot is part of a broader technical
assistance program supporting the reform of the public
community college system in Jordan. The objective of the
Jordan New work Opportunities for Women (NOW) pilot was to
increase female labor force participation and help women
gain real world job experience. In particular, the hope was
to improve information between firms and potential workers,
create an opportunity to change negative stereotypes from
firms and young women about women's role in the labor
market, and improve soft skills and communication. Overall,
the objectives of the Jordan NOW pilot were to increase
labor force participation and to give young female graduates
a chance to accrue some work experience. |
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