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 …

the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a …Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

In recent years, unemployment rates in some ECCU countries have been among the highest globally. This paper evaluates … significantly associated with high structural unemployment, while the global crisis added a cyclical component. Our analysis also … unemployment is related to the phase out of EU preferences on bananas/sugar exports or to a skills mismatch. As expected …