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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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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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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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Measuring the impacts of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) on wage outcomes in the Philippines

Generalao, Ian Nicole A.; Balaoro, Jennylyn M.; … - 2025

wages than non-TVET graduates. For workers in private establishments with regular pay, this study found no significant wage …

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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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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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Analyzing Filipino migrant workers' access to social protection

Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Vargas, Anna Rita P.; Mondez, Maria … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people's livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which significantly relies on overseas remittances to boost household consumption, the return of hundreds of thousands of OFWs is a great reminder of the need for...

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Eradicating poverty in the Philippines by 2030 : an elusive goal?

Reyes, Celia M. - 2021

The Philippines aspires to be an upper middle-income country by 2022 as stated in the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan. It has also committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where the first goal is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. This paper examines the performance of...

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Measuring poverty within Filipino households : examining of resource sharing and economies of scale

Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Bayudan-Dacuycuy, Connie; … - 2024

The Philippine government's long-term vision, AmBisyon Natin 2040, aims for a prosperous, predominantly middle-class society where no one is poor. The Philippine Development Plan 2023- 2028 emphasizes strategies to develop and protect individual and family capabilities by reducing...

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