The paper examines the Philippine labor market by fitting a labor supply equation using detailed firm data from the survey of manufactures. The Philippines continues to have high rates of unemployment and underemployment amidst a continuously rising labor supply. The results of the econometric...

Two short memoirs are offered on the development of Philippine social sciences related to the contributions of two scholars. The first memoir is on Dr. Vernon W. Ruttan and the UP School of Economics during the 1960s. His contributions to the development of the UP School of Economics and of the...

This paper deals with the supply of male and female labor in Philippine industry. Using unit record data from the Philippine survey of manufactures of 2005, a supply equation in which labor by sex of workers is estimated with the wage rate used as the explanatory variable. The results confirm...