AMMAN: According to a report released on Wednesday, the unemployment rate in Jordan ranged between 11 and 14 per cent over the past 10 years with no significant improvement.
Although the demand for jobs has increased in the Kingdom, the number of vacancies has declined over the past few years, the Phenix Centre for Economic and Informatics Studies report said. The study, released on the occasion of Labour Day, which is annually observed on May 1, said 50,000 jobs were available in Jordan in 2013 and 2012 compared with 55,000 in 2011, and 66,000 in 2010.
A total of 23,000 job opportunities were available in the first half of 2014, the centre said, noting that the challenges facing Jordanian workers have remained the same over the past few years. One of the main challenges is low wages compared to high prices of commodities, with the majority of workers receiving less than the minimum wage of JD190, according to the report.
