The paper looks at the remittance behavior of these two groups of migrants, the OFWs and the permanent emigrants. It applies received theory on remittance behavior on cross-section data from the 2004 special survey on remittances sponsored by the Asian Development Bank.

The paper is an exploratory study of labor market adjustment to the outflow of construction workers. It argues that the ease with which the market adjust to out-migration or to any change in demand of any skill depends on the cost of acquiring training for and the relative abundance of inherent...

This is a follow up note on the UP School of Economics Faculty paper on the population issue. The poor who belong to the lowest two deciles of the income distribution have much higher actual and desired number of children, respectively 5.2 and 3.5. In contrast, the upper middle and higher income...

The paper inquires into the impact of contemporary major world events – the recession in the United States and Western Europe, the oil price hike, and the Arab Spring – on the flow of overseas Filipino workers or OFWs and their remittances. The paper finds that the recession in the West has...

Labor-importing countries adopt differing immigration policy on foreign workers. They all restrict the number allowed entry and many set wage ceilings at levels below the wage paid the native workers. The differing restrictive immigration policies result in the segmentation of the world labor...

The paper sees imprudent lending by a weak banking system as an important and common cause of the East Asian crisis. The crisis-hit economies' banking systems had not put in place prudential rules and practices and their organization was subjugated to power politics and big business control....

The paper is part of a larger study on normative financing, an alternative scheme to the ad hoc and highly politicised budget allocation process for state universities and colleges (SUC) currently in use. Normative financing requires, among other data, per student cost benchmarks or norms for...

The paper tries to trace the downturn in the economy in 1997-1998 and compares it with the crisis experienced in Thailand, Korea and Indonesia. The downturn was not of the magnitude of their crisis and had different causes. GDP fell by a lower rate from 5.2% to -.5%. The decline was of the same...

The paper is an update of earlier papers on migration (Tan and Canlas 1989, Tan 1993). Overseas employment continued to increase though at decelerating rate. There were changes in destinations and occupations with Asia gradually replacing the Middle East. The overseas workers' occupations were...