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    An analysis of inter-regional migration in the Philippine for the period 1979 to 1980
    (1987-03) Aballo, Ruel M.; Moreno, Honorata A.
    This paper delved into the analysis of inter-regional migration in the Philippines for the period 1970 to 1980. Analysis of the trends and patterns of inter-regional migration revealed that majority of Philippine migrants tended to move towards urban areas, especially towards the National Capital Region. It also revealed that Luzon migrants tended to move within Luzon only, Visayan migrants towards Luzon and Mindanao migrants within the Mindanao island only. This paper also attempted to quantify the factors which significantly influenced ipter-regiona1 migration in the Philip- pines. Using regional geographic, demographic and economic indicators, a multiple regression analysis was effected to identify the significant determinants of inter-regional migration. The results indicated that urbanization, population density, farm density and income differential were significant in instituting the trends and patterns of inter-regional mobility.
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    Philippine employment policies: its effects on labor absorption (1950-1980)
    (1987-09) Crisol, Jose Borromeo Jr.; Robles, Carlos Santos III; Herrin, Alejandro
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    Education as a signal: some evidence on the Philipine labor market
    (2006-04) Estrellado, Anna Margarita; Evangelista. Maria Victoria
    This study revisits the human capital-signaling debate in ::he context of the Philippine labor market. Previous researches have used these frameworks to give alternative explanations of the relationship between education and productivity. Stated succinctly, the human capital framework directly links education to actual productivity, while the signaling framework relates education to perceived productivity. The signaling framework contends that there is no definite measure for actual productivity. As a result, employers use signals; such as education, thc.t they believe to be correlated with productivity, as bases for rating prospective applicants' ability to perform the job description. In this paper, we analyze data to test the relevance of the signaling framework to the Philippine labor market. To this end, we ·evaluate the minimum educational requirements for jobs in the Philippines. This necessitates a comparison between job requirements ten to thirty years ago and those of the same jobs today. Our findings indicate that the productive capabilities signaled by a worker completing a level of education many years ago are not the same as what a worker with the same educational attainment signals now. This suggests the relevance of the signaling framework in the Philippine context.
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    Gender wage differentials in the Philippine labor market
    (2009-01) Sabijon, Karen M.
    The study Women in the Labor Market: Philippines, conducted by Alonzo, Horton, and Nayar (1996) evaluated and described what accounts to the wage gender differential between men and women using the 1988 data. This paper updates the findings of Alonzo, Horton and Nayar on gender wage differential and found out that there still exists wage discrimination against women in the Philippine Labor Market. Using the Oaxaca decomposition method and the Heckman test for sample selectivity, the proponent of this study investigated on (1) the differences in the components of the male and female wage structures, and (2) the extent of their differences or discrimination. In defining the wage structures for men and women, age, marital status, educational attainment, type of occupation and region were used as independent variables. Using hourly wage rate as the dependent variable, it was found out that there still exists gender wage discrimination in the Philippine labor market against the female workers. Without discrimination, female workers should have been earning the same wage with men, which is 1.9 times higher than the formers' actual wages. Therefore, there is no progress in diminishing the gender wage gap.
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    Female labor force participation in the Philippines
    (2009-04) Ko Gaw, Jennifer Marie G.
    The study focuses on understanding factors that affect women's behavior toward working and joining the labor force. Using the samples of a nationally representative survey, results are obtained using probit model. The results show that factors considered significant in determining female labor force participation in the Philippines include education, age, marital status, family size, household type, number of employed household members, presence of children, total family income, ownership of time-saving technology, women unemployment per region, and basic pay per day per region.