AMMAN — The Labour Ministry on Sunday said that around 160,000 Syrians were working in the Kingdom without the proper documentation, posing a challenge to strategic plans to combat unemployment among young Jordanians.
The ministry is currently working on identifying the impact of Syrian refugees on the labour sector after the number of Syrians working illegally reached “alarming levels”, Labour Minister Nidal Katamine said.
Katamine told The Jordan Times that the ministry signed an agreement with the University of Jordan’s Centre for Strategic Studies, under which the latter will conduct a study on Syrian refugees and their social impact in the Kingdom.
“The study aims to highlight the repercussions of the presence of Syrian refugees on society, national income and the labour sector,” the minister said.
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