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    Effects of human capital and social capital on cooperative and defective behavior
    (2012-10) Reyes, Leo Martin P.; Roldan, Eldon Neri Y.; Desierto, Desiree A.
    Effective policies and measures to promote economic development, efficiency, and social stability are the ultimate goal of every government. Tremendous efforts are being exerted to achieve these goals, with specific targets being highlighted in the past decades. Nurturing human ;\ capital and social capital hc:tve becbme popular in achieving economic development by ensuring that citizens abide by the rules and cooperate by the standards set by society and legal authorities. With the growing awareness of this intangible, yet very powerful kind of capital, this paper delves on the effects of human capital and social capital on human propensity to cooperate and defect. Using data on illegal gambling behaviour of 1200 respondents from the Social Weather Station's 2005 Second Quarter Survey, the researchers found both human capital and social capital to have a significant negative effect on defective behavior using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regression Model. However, more than providing a comparative analysis of the effect of human and social capital, this paper used another model called "Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation through Two Stage Least Squares" to control for the endogeneity issue of the main variables and to acquire less biased and more reliable estimates on the effect of these variables on defective behavior. Using IV Estimation, the researchers found social capital, as proxied by "religious attendance'~d instrumented by "gender", to have a significant negative effect on the propensity of an individual to defect from a certain standard or norm. On the other hand, human capital, as proxied by "educational attainment" and instrumented by "height", was found to be insignificant to defecting behavior. Moreover, this paper aims to be a reference to revision of old policies or creation of new policies that would target human behavior
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    Academic performance and organizational affiliation with respect to initial income
    (2001-03) Bellen, Digi-Anna E.; Chua, Vicelen C.; Tan, Carlos
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    School enrollment decisions an evaluation of its determinants in elementary and secondary levels
    (2001-10) Untalan, Allan Abarabar; Manrique, Rizzarene Santiago; Tan, Edita
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    To be or not to be: an analysis of why most UP economics graduates are not practicing economics
    (2001-10-25) Quimio, Maria Vida M.; Suarez, Haidee Roda Anne L.; Danao, Rolando
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    The internal labor economics of a government agency
    (2002-04) Bacate, Marife Lou L.; Lee, Anthony M.; Alonzo, Ruperto
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    The valuation of education by households in the Philippines
    (2002-10) Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Bautista, Maria Socorro Gochoco
    Education is considered to be one of the principal factors that contribute to the noble objective of poverty alleviation. Knowing the importance of education to the household is the first step in deploying a comprehensive human resource development program in the country. The education ratio-defined as the budget share of educational expenditure to total expenditure-is used as a measure of how much the household values education. In this paper, ordinary least squares regression analysis is employed to determine the effects of total expenditure and a vector of spatial and household characteristics on the education ratio. The results indicate that the aforementioned characteristics significantly determine the ratio. With this knowledge, it is recommended that the government adopt an efficient and equitable human capital investment program that is responsive to different household valuations of education.
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    The effect of education and demographic characteristics on the layoff odds of labor force participants
    (2003-10) Antonio, May Lourdes D.; Brillantes, Abigail B.; Kraft, Aleli
    This study examines whether education and demographic characteristics namely age, gender and marital status have a significant effect on the layoff probability of the participants in the labor force when firms undergo retrenchment. The Qualitative Response Model specifically the Logit model was used to determine the impact of these variables on layoffs. Initially education, age, gender and marital status were perceived to have a negative relation with the layoff probability, where male, single, young and with higher levels of education are less likely to be laid off. However, results showed that age and marital status does not affect the chances of workers or employees of being laid off. On the other hand, gender and education specifically, the college level have shown significance in affecting the likelihood of labor force participants to be laid off. With the consideration of added variables, namely the nature of employment and the kind of business, only the former has been found to have significance on the layoff probability. In the fully interactive model, the variables gender, education, nature of employment, the service sector and its interaction dummies with the levels of education proved to be significant.
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    Public education and employment
    (2003-04) Dizon, Cristine Ines N.; Lumboy, Jewel Therese D.; Alburo, Florian
    There are many ways to increase employment. One is to develop the skills and knowledge of the people through education. Recognizing this vital role played by education on employment, a major portion of the government's budget is being allocated for the different levels of education each year. This paper shows that the government budget for elementary education has a better impact on reducing the unemployment rate among those who completed elementary· education compared to the government budget for secondary education. The technical results of the study show that the elementary unemployment rate has a negative relationship with the budget for elementary education. The key policy implications is that since elementary level is the optimum level that will improve the country's employment situation, this should be the priority of the government in allocating its resources.