A study of the welfare of overseas Filipino worker supported households in Jones, Isabela
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2002-10
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The years since 1980 have brought a steady sequence of human capital outflow from the Philippines. Consequently, the Philippines has found its own niche and seized an important share of the world market for human capital exports.
The idea of writing this paper came out of our own experience as part of a family with an OFW as bread winner and as an individual and a part of greater a community with a growing number of OFWs. Thus, we perceived two main questions in our my minds. The first was the correlation of an OFW breadwinner with its household welfare and second, was the need to understand the factors that affects the probability of being poor through the different demographics/characteristics of the OFW.
We found that published books and papers did not adequately meet this challenges. Most deal with the macroeconomic impact of remittances, savings, and dollar reserves on the country. As a result, the microeconomic level - the households in particular, are left unnoticed.
This paper is our attempt to provide an up-to-date analysis of the impact (both economically and socially) of an OFW supported households in a specific town. In analyzing this subject, our approach is to use two types of regression analysis that use first hand information to explain these challenges. The paper also attempts to give recommendations to further uplift the economic welfare of the OFWs and its left behind households.
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Overseas Filipino workers, OFW, Social welfare, Jones, Isabela, Filipino workers