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- Title
Gender Differences in Unemployment and Poverty in Four Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan.
- Authors
ATHAMNEH, Abdel Baset
- Abstract
This study aims at investigating the effect of gender differences on causing unemployment and poverty inside Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan through estimating the rates of unemployment and poverty among families headed by women and those led by men. The study found differences in the socio-economic characteristics of the sample, including family size, family residence space, income levels, education levels, school dropout rates, child labor, dependency rates, etc. The results of the study also showed that unemployment rates among families in the sample as a whole were higher in families headed by women (24.4 percent) than in families headed by men (22.0 percent). Conversely, at the camp level, unemployment rates among families headed by men were higher, except in Irbid camp. However, poverty rates were found to be higher among families headed by women in the sample as a whole and all camps as well; the abject poverty rates in the sample amounted to 18.8 percent for families headed by women versus 5.6 percent for families headed by men. The absolute poverty rates were 67.8 percent and 45.6 percent, respectively. Finally, the study recommends further research on gender issues concerning refugee communities, concentrating on qualitative analyses to provide profound interpretations for the phenomena with which refugees live, especially unemployment and poverty.
- Subjects
GENDER differences (Psychology); UNEMPLOYMENT; POVERTY; REFUGEE camps; PALESTINIAN Americans
- Publication
Journal of Economic & Management Perspectives, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
2523-5338
- Publication type
Article