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    Education and self-employment in Jamaica
    (May 1996) Honig, Benson Lewis;
    In Jamaica, structural adjustment policies have severely limited employment opportunities in the formal sector, and approximately 40 percent of the labour force engages in "informal" self-employment. Interviews with 250 self-employed micro-entrepreneurs revealed that effects on income of experience and various types of education differed between workers in technologically more complex, compared with simpler businesses