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Pledged 200,000 work permits for Syrian refugees in agriculture, construction, and manufacturing by relaxing administrative barriers and trade rules of origin [4]. However, 93% of urban refugees initially remained below the national poverty line ($5/day), and control group employment rates remained low at 2.7% for Syrians and 6.8% for Jordanians [2, 7].
Eased administrative procedures in manufacturing, agriculture, and construction to issue up to 200,000 work permits, establishing a global model for refugee economic integration later adopted in Ethiopia.
Two months after baseline, the information intervention increased Syrian job search applications by 35% (0.423 applications, p = 0.072), wage employment by 4.7 percentage points (p = 0.036), and earnings by 6.209 JOD (p = 0.092). By four months, employment impacts attenuated to 1.9 percentage points (p = 0.148) and earnings to 4.567 JOD (p = 0.105), showing no significant positive impacts on Jordanian jobseekers.