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Item Restricted Effect of the pandemic-induced shift to teleworking on worker-level wage and hours worked(2022-01) Floro, Nicarae Valerie; Panagsagan, Ruth A.; Jandoc, Karl Robert L.This study examines the effect of the pandemic-induced shift to teleworking on worker-level wage and hours worked in the Philippines. Data from the October 2019 round and October 2020 round of the Philippine Labor Force Survey (LFS) were used in order to compare pre-pandemic to pandemic figures. Specifically, this study aims to look at the relationship between an occupation’s teleworkability score and the change in its workers’ wages and hours worked by performing an Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis. This paper finds that higher teleworkability of an occupation is associated with lower wages and greater weekly work hours during the pandemic. The reduction in wages may be explained by lower productivity, flexible time arrangements and initial costs of implementing ICTs for telework which vary across countries. Meanwhile, the increase in weekly work hours implies the blurring of work-life boundaries and difficulty in adjusting to new technological tools among workers in high teleworkable occupations.Item Restricted Who can work from home? determinants and wage effects of teleworkaccess in the Philippines(2026-01-06) Palomata, Ivan Georg; Taneo, Tricia Kieth; Sabarillo, Anthony G.This study examines the determinants of telework access and associated wage premiums in the Philippine labor market using 2021 FIES-LFS data merged with occupation-level teleworkability indices. Probit analysis reveals that tertiary education is the dominant predictor of telework access, increasing the probability by 27.7 percentage points compared to elementary education. Using OLS, Heckman selection correction, and propensity score matching, the telework wage premium is estimated at 24-35%, with larger effects for women (30.3%) than men (21.8%) and for lower-wage workers (34.2%) compared to higher-wage workers (14.7%). These findings suggest that while telework offers substantial wage benefits, access remains highly stratified by education, potentially exacerbating labor market inequality.