Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded … unskilled labor situation, and low rate of return on education at basic levels. The poor faced high rate of underemployment and … pro-poor. Furthermore, opportunity costs and their unfavorable outcomes in labor markets prevent further improvements of …

growth, (ii) the introduction of the new Labor Contract Law at the start of 2008, and (iii) the reduction in export orders …

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …

interpretation is based on two branches of sociology. The sociology of professions makes it possible to understand the genesis of the … strategy of survival. The sociology of innovation proposes to interpret the Statutory Audit Premium as a project hustling the …

institutions that Asia needs to establish to contribute to this evolving global economic architecture. …

Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the … challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl”—overlapping, multiple trade rules, regulations, and standards in Asia—in the process … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …

those in Asia’s emerging economies. …

—and evolutionary processes of economic integration in light of regional policy targets in Asia. The analysis highlights the importance …