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    A regional analysis of the determinants of female labor force participation in the Philippines: 1995
    (2002-10) Milla, Patricia Corpuz; Soliven, Laila Guillermo; Tecson, Gwendolyn
    Labor is one of the key factors that define a country's well-being in the long-run. It depends upon the willingness of men and women to work or join the labor force. In the Philippines, female labor force participation rates post a steadily increasing trend over the past years. In the interest of explaining the aforementioned economic activity, this study focuses on a regional analysis of the determinants of female labor force participation rates in the Philippines for the year 1995. A cross section multiple linear regression using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Method was employed on data from 15 regions to estimate the significance, nature and degree of relationships between regional female labor force participation rates and selected dependent variables. Viewed as a product of the interplay of various social, demographic and economic factors, results indicated that regional female labor force is positively related to the level of education, woman's age, marital status and presence of children, while negatively related to wage and unemployment. Marital status and unemployment were included despite their insignificant results in so far as they complement the economic concept of the "added worker effect".