This paper examines the Philippines’ investment climate in its many dimensions, relating these to the performance of the economy at the national, regional, and provincial levels. The central thesis is that the economy’s slow growth over the past two decades or more can be attributed in large...

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Katz and Stark (1986) have proposed two reasons for rational workers to migrate to urban areas even when the urban expected income is lower than rural income. We propose to more, viz., scale economies in consumption and differential income variance in favor of the urban area. In each case,...

We give the conditions for the attainment of self-enforcing Pareto efficiency under complete effort non-observability, strict agent rationality and global budget balance among teams involved in a winner-takes-all contest for a prize. Employing Nash conjectures and fixed fee financing of the...

Under the present system of income taxation in the Philippines, there is a differential burden created by the corporate income tax on shareholders' incomes vis-a-vis other types of personal income. Corollarily, within the corporate sector, a built-in incentive exists in favor of debt finance,...

Why has the living standard of the Philippines relative to that of the U.S. not risen unlike its Asian neighbors? Using data on national income accounts and the workforce from the Penn World Table (version 6.1) and years of schooling from Barro and Lee (2000) as well as a simple neoclassical...

This study looks at the minimum wage fixing in the Philippines after World War II. The rationale for such a wage policy is discussed, followed by a description of the guidelines observed in the setting of wage differentials in the legislations. Then the coverage and implementation of the minimum...