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    Women on top: the role of gender in higher educational advancement and career success
    (2011-10) Dimayuga, Maria Regina Kassandra V.; Sy, Ivania C.; Diokno, Benjamin E.
    Gender inequality has long been considered an issue in educational development and career However, However, recent developments in alleviating such inequalities raise the question of whether or not gender bias still exists in school and in the workplace, specifically in This Philippine setting. This paper aims to determine how Filipinos' contributes to Filipinos' higher educational The and career success. The results of Filipino women analysis show that Filipino women achieve greater educational advancement and However, women greater years of schooling. However, women in the country still continue to earn less than men On to several social and cultural factors. On a more positive note, it was also discovered that the wage differential has been decreasing since 2003, which verifies that women are slowly advancing in the workplace.
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    The deposit slip: a battle of the sexes a comparative analysis of the savings rates of male- and female-headed households
    (2008-10) Borja, Rosa Beatrix G.; Solon, Orville
    This study aims to find out whether there are differences between the saving rates of male and female household heads and what factors possibly affect these differences. Data and variables from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) 2003 were used in this paper. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions for cross-sectional data, results show that female heads in non-agricultural areas have the highest average saving rates. In general, non-agricultural households have higher saving rates, relative to agricultural households. An unexpected finding shows that saving rates are negatively related to the household head's educational attainment. Household size is also a significant determinant of the savings level. The higher savings rates of female household heads, however, may only mean that they feel their incomes are more uncertain because of lack of access to credit, incomplete information and liquidity constraints.
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    A critique of the regression-based decomposition method: an illustration using the contribution of gender to income inequality
    (2009-10) Anglim, Allyanna; Kua, Kesterson; Desierto, Desiree
    This paper quantifies the contribution of sex to income inequality by employing the recently-developed regression-based decomposition approach. In the process, we show that this decomposition procedure is flawed and could produce biased and incorrect results because of its inherent inability to completely account for the effects of other explanatory variables. This, coupled with defects in data, results in inconsistencies and the unreliability of the results of the decomposition. We argue, however, that general inferences about the relative importance and contribution trend of each explanatory variable can still be made. Other variables are also shown to contribute to income inequality, the most notable of which are infrastructure and education. We show that taken together, human capital variables explain a less than expected amount in the variation of income logarithms, but the importance of which are not negligible. Regional location is also shown to contribute a considerable amount to income inequality. We conclude that should better data be available for this particular study, and should the decomposition procedure be properly carried out in accordance with its theoretical purpose, the effect of sex on inequality is expected to be bigger and positive, which is in line with standard literature concerning the explanatory power of sex in the logarithms of income. We call for improvements in the methodology, especially in the ability to account for other explanatory variables in order to get the true, unbiased and absolute effect of each independent variable on the dependent variable.
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    Effects of trade liberalization on employment rate of men and women in the Philippines
    (2008-03) Co, Judie Anne L.; Sun, Ma. Paula V.
    Globalization has increased the need for greater coordination amongst countries, especially when it comes to trade. The trend has been to open up trade and make it easier to deal with different people and companies across different countries. But trade policies, while good for the economy, can have varied effects on the people living in those countries. This study aims to find how trade liberalization, through increased exports and imports, has affected the employment and well being of workers in the Philippines. It also aims to determine if the effects of trade policies are different for males and females. The study concludes that the rise in exports and imports in the last ten years does affect employment of the Filipino workers, with males and females affected similarly. It also finds that while trade liberalization improves the economy, there is a need to calibrate tariff rates to cushion the impact on domestic industries and local employment.