Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …

education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market … policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching signficantly more difficult …

Income distribution in the Philippines is highly uneven, and poverty rates are higher than in other ASEAN countries. In …

This paper explores the macroeconomic effects of improving public infrastructure in the Philippines. After benchmarking … the Philippines relative to its neighbors in terms of level of public capital and quality of public infrastructure, and …