This paper analyzes and estimates the effects of income, education, unemployment level, fertility, location of residence and migration on the wife's probability of being employed. The study examines the research problem in relation to a neoclassical model of "new home economics" variety as well...

Usual indicators of intertemporal rural performance are technically flawed mainly because of the shifting of the physical area of the rural sector as population grows and/or economic activity expands. The problem is illustrated using Philippine poverty data. The paper also shows that the rural...

This study describes informal sector enterprises in terms of their organizational and operational characteristics, discovers the impact of these characteristics upon the enterprises' productivity, employment and income generating power and explores policy measures to enhance the participation of...

Assuming lexicographic expected utilities; a solution to a group decision problem obtains from a repeated application of Pareto optimality. If unique, the solution is characterized by the Nash bargaining conditions suitably modified.

The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...

We show that analysis of control problems with a "reduction set," i.e., a subset of the control vector that satisfies certain strong conditions, avoids the "curse of dimensionality." The problem boils down to solving n static equations in n unknowns (the control plus the state variables) and...

Few studies have analyzed the Philippine economic experience during the Japanese occupation. Although such studies are in the nature of history and commentaries, they have not focused on the economic analysis of the war experience. The present study hopes to close this gap if only partially by...