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    A model of household labor supply: income and hours of work relation
    (1980-10) Bustos, Patricia S.; Torres, Victoria R.; Jurado, Gonzalo M.
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    The effects of migration on Philippine labor supply
    (1983-03-23) Salvador, Maria Elena Alfonso; Zulueta, Cristina Lucero; Herrin, Alejandro
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    Migration's role in the patterns of labor supply with particular reference to the Philippine urban sector
    (1979-01) Basobas, Bernadette C.; Vicencio, Ramon Christopher L.
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    To work or not to work: household decisions on working children
    (2002-03) Ico, Ronaldo D.; Santiago, Sherwin Edison R.
    It is now well understood that a major cause of child labor is the poverty of the household. In this study, it attempts to analyze other factors other than poverty that drive households to send their children to work. There exists an area of bargaining in each particular household to come up with a decision on working children. The bargaining power of each member of the household depends on the amount of resources one brings to the household and on the external and inherent factors of the household like his/her characteristics, values, attitudes and environment. Using the 1995 National Survey for Working Children, it shows that both the characteristics of child and household head play an important role in the decision making of entry of working children. As there is more working children in rural areas, there is a great disparity in decisions among households living in urban and rural areas. A household in an urban area that owns more human and physical assets like education and land is less likely to send children to work than one in a rural area. The sex and birth order of the child can foretell the decision of the household. The household head has greater influences in the decision making in rural areas because of the prevailing culture of traditional Filipino families as compared to urban areas. By examining its needs, a household would determine how to allocate time of each of its members. With the interplay of the preferences of the working child and the household head given each time constraint, the decision of the household is known.
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    Maternal employment and child cognitive development in Cebu
    (2010-04) Galvez, Julio Miguel C.; Esguerra, Emmanuel
    This study investigates the impact of maternal labor supply on child cognitive development in the province of Cebu. Compared to previous studies on the subject, this study makes a significant contribution to the literature by examining the effect of the location of the mother's work on her labor force participation decision, and consequently, on her child's development, as it reflects the different dynamic of labor force participation in developing countries like the Philippines. Using instrumental variables methods to control for the endogeneity of maternal labor supply, we find that while maternal employment may positively affect a child's cognitive outcomes, the location of the mother's employment exerts a more significant impact on her child's test scores. The results suggest that a mother who works at home contributes more to her child's development than a mother who works in the neighborhood or in the barangay, as taking work at home allows her to fulfill her dual roles of caregiving and co- breadwinning. On the other hand, a mother who has attained higher educational outcomes would do well to undertake formal market work, as the income that she receives enables her to· purchase high-quality substitutes for her child care, which will then create a positive impact on her child's development.
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    Wages and the asian business process outsourcing industry
    (2009-03) Capacia, Karen Eloisa B.; Morales, Cristina Victoria N.
    This paper measures the magnitudes of the determinants of wage rates in the Asian business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. It examines the effects of infrastructure, cost of living, and labor supply on the wages of the software developers in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. Using a panel data, we examine and conduct a multi-linear regression analysis on the determinants of the different wages of BPO providers. We find that technological Infrastructure has the biggest impact (positive) on wages, followed by labor supply (negative). Cost of living has the least impact (positive) on wages.