All Blog Posts Tagged 'employment' (14)

هل الشباب نعمة أم نقمة في الأردن؟ سؤال مغموس بمرارة الإقرار بفشل مبادرات التنمية منذ بدأ الأردن بما سماه برامج الإصلاح.

ألم يتحدث مسؤولونا في المحافل الدولية والمحلية عن إنجازاتنا ويتغنون بنعمة "الشباب"، مستقبل الأردن؟ أليس الشباب بعمله وجهده مصدر دخل وسؤدد للبلد؟ فكيف إذا يكون الشباب نقمة على هذا البلد أو أي بلد؟ الإجابة: يصبح الشباب نقمة حين لا يستطيع الأردن توظيفهم، فينمو اقتصاده…

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The quest for reform in Jordan has been plagued by piecemeal, sporadic and disconnected reforms and the relative retardation of mainstream institutions. The battle that emerged between the reform minded, powerful as they may be, and those who were neglected by the reform and tagged as helpless, is all too painful; the victim, Jordanian reform efforts.

The apparent…

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Venture, February 29, 2012

The way forward for Arab countries is not to focus on attracting foreign direct investment, but on creating a better educated and trained labor force. Otherwise, not only foreign but also domestic investors will continue to favor the developed West, Asian tigers and emerging economies. Domestically, investment will continue to flow…

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Every time a ranking official makes a big deal about a new initiative to improve schools in order to make them tolerable, or education so that it becomes partially compatible with the required skills of the age, or announces a new type of training for youth, he or she is actually admitting the failure of the system to deliver on its promise, and the fact that public resources had not been properly allocated to prepare the youth for the job market.

No new gimmicks and small initiatives are… Continue

الإجابة على العنوان يجب أن تكون واضحة وهي أن غالبية المتعطلين عن العمل في الأردن هم الشباب, لكن السؤال الأهم هو ما هي أسباب هذه البطالة?



نستطيع أن نستدل الكثير من متوسط معدلات البطالة في الفترة 2005-2009 لمختلف مجموعات الأعمار; وسنلاحظ أن الفئة العمرية 15-19 عاما تعاني من معدل بطالة 14% في المتوسط للفترة, كما بلغ متوسط البطالة لدى المجموعة العمرية 20-29 عاما نسبة 59.84% أي 60% تقريبا, وهي أعلى نسبة بطالة بين جميع الفئات العمرية. أما أولئك الذين تراوحت…

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سيلاحظ المتابع للأرقام الرسمية لسوق العمل في الاردن, أنه في بعض السنوات وحين تكون معدلات النمو الحقيقية للاقتصاد الكلي مرتفعة, تزداد البطالة أيضا; فعلى سبيل المثال في سنتي 2004 و2005 حين كانت معدلات النمو الاقتصادية مرتفعة, ارتفعت معدلات البطالة مما يخالف العرف الاقتصادي القائل بأن النشاط الاقتصادي يؤدي الى زيادة التوظيف وليس إلى ارتفاع البطالة.



تذبذبت معدلات البطالة منذ عام 2000 بين 15.3% في عام ,2002 وهي أعلى نسبة بطالة مرّ بها الاردن في العقد…

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In 2011, 3.5 million Jordanians were eligible for work but only 1.4 million were economically active. Between 2005 and 2009, 63 per cent of jobs created went to expatriates working and living in Jordan, while 180,000 Jordanians were unemployed.

Looking at the average unemployment rate between 2005 and…

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Exporters of labour are Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco. Occasionally, policy makers in these countries boast of the significant benefits their economies gain from such a precious export as human capital. The importers of labour are primarily the oil states…

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The policy response can be neither reductionist (dismissive of all other reasons while focusing only on one factor or cause) nor one dimensional, whereby one…

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Not only is unemployment in Jordan chronically high, data also shows a great bias against women in terms of employment opportunities. Moreover, in several years, there is a noted tradeoff between the employment of women and men: women are laid off to hire men instead, which is evidence that women not only suffer the most in economic downturns but also that we live in a strangely sexist culture despite constant assertions to the contrary. Since 2000, unemployment has hovered between a high of…

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It is common knowledge that, in general, the level of education at Jordanian universities has fallen in recent years. Graduates of Jordanian universities are more likely to be unemployed than those with a high school level education.

Maybe it is time for us to come clean on higher education: it is falling.

A major overhaul of the higher education system is warranted and highly overdue.

One reason for the dismal results is decreased spending by government on this…

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