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...

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...

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 investigates the degree of inequality of distribution of formal schooling in Thailand and how it intensifies as we move up to schooling ladder. It applies a constrained capital optimization model to explain the degree and movement of inequality. It shows how financial constraints on...

The Philippine financial system has failed to develop over the last three decades. M3/GNP ratio has not risen but has merely fluctuated around 22-25 percent. Wrong policies are blamed for the poor performance of the system. The current interest rate structure shows extremely wide differentials...

The analysis draws attention to the whole life cycle relationship between health, labor productivity and utility function. Man's health-biological (HB) cycle is inverted U-shaped. It has the obvious growth or upward sloping segment and a declining segment. The peak is considered to be the...