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Wages, housework, and attitudes in the Philippines

Dacuycuy, Connie B. - 2016

This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyze housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wage and attitudes to work and family life affect the time devoted to housework. Based on different specifications and estimators, our findings indicate that the respondent's...

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Social protection in APEC : in pursuit of inclusive growth

Cuenca, Janet S. - 2016

The paper seeks to take stock of some of the key APEC documents/reports relevant to social protection and safety net programs, and also of the experience of APEC member-economies, with special focus on the Philippines, in implementing social protection measures. In particular, it attempts to...

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Inclusivity of factor flows in a labor-surplus economy : experience of the Philippines

Rivera, John Paolo R.; Tullao, Tereso S. - 2023

Under the assumption of full employment, we probed the impact of labor emigration on wages, employment, and production … Decomposition (FEVD) to capture the response of wages, employment, and production in the capital- and labor-intensive sectors on …

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and wages in the Philippines

Debuque-Gonzales, Margarita; Epetia, Ma. Christina F.; … - 2023

wages and their respective outcomes across sectors and various worker characteristics. To analyze the pandemic's impacts on …) regressions. We also estimate the effects on real daily wages through OLS regressions on subsamples of wage and salary workers … larger on employment than on real wages, in contrast to findings for previous crises which found the reverse to be true …

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After five years of Pantawid, what next?

Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Castaneda, Tarsicio - 2013

When the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program was designed, the government publicly promised to limit to five years the giving of the education and health grants. This five-year limit is almost over for the first set of beneficiaries by 2013. The natural policy question then is: Would it be wise...

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Reforming social protection policy : responding to the global financial crisis and beyond

Manasan, Rosario G. - 2009

This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and non-contributory social protection programs that are currently in place as part of the government's portfolio of social protection interventions, including social insurance (SSS, GSIS, PhilHealth), social welfare programs (e.g.,...

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Social protection in the Philippines : current state and challenges

Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2011

This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....

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Microinsurance in the Philippines : policy and regulatory issues and challenges

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Almario, Joselito; Llanto-Gamboa, … - 2007 - revised

This study assesses the state of microinsurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing microinsurance development. The term micro pertains to the capacity of a program to handle the small, sometime irregular cash flows of poor households, who have...

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Decent work in crowdwork : gendered takeaways from an online survey in the Philippines

Bayudan-Dacuycuy, Connie; Kryz Baje, Lora - 2021

Platform work has the potential to help women reconcile the age-old conflict between unpaid work and market work. However, there is a degree of precariousness in platform work, one that is reminiscent of informal work. Concerns on whether platforms are new vehicles of delivering old inequalities...

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SocPen beyond ten : a process evaluation of the DSWD social pension (SocPen) program for indigent senior citizens amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Monje, Jennifer D.; Muñoz, Mika S. - 2021

Since 2011, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has implemented the Social Pension (SocPen) Program which gives a noncontributory monthly pension of PHP 500 to qualified seniors, i.e., indigent Filipinos aged 60 and above. Initially, the DSWD had...

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