Labor - Matches
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This paper describes the revised national level estimates of the 2007 Philippines NTA. The differences between the previous and the revised 2007 Phili..
Discussion Papers
Openness to foreign labor reflects Singapore`s overall open economic policies and lack of xenophobia as well as a tight labor market as a result of ro..
Policy Notes
For economic upgrading toward a knowledge-based economy, Singapore requires a growing pool of professionals and skilled workers, innovators, and entre..
Policy Notes
Cross-national labor inflow to Malaysia became prominent in the 1970s. This largely consists of low-skilled economic migrants and refugees, some of wh..
Policy Notes
The long experience of deploying large numbers of workers has earned accolade for the Philippines as a global model for managing the deployment of wor..
Policy Notes
As in many regions of the world, there is an urgent need in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to address critical gaps in the managem..
Policy Notes
The Local Government Code of 1991 is supposed to transfer some of the regulatory functions of the national government as well as more social service r..
Development Research News
This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and noncontributory social protection programs that are currently in place as part of the gove..
Research Paper Series
This paper analyzes the responses from a survey of Philippine companies concerning labor market policies, such as minimum wage-setting process, hiring..
Philippine Journal of Development
Various studies showed that total factor productivity (TFP) has not been a source of growth in the Philippines. It seems that factor accumulation, whi..
Discussion Papers
The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastru..
Discussion Papers
Singapore has one of the most open economies in Asia in terms of trade, foreign direct investment inflows, and foreign labor inflows. By 2010, citizen..
Discussion Papers
Labor force statistics is one of the key tools used by decisionmakers to gauge how well (or worse) the economy is doing. Thus, an understanding of the..
Economic Issue of the Day
Aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth--i.e., growth of output per unit of labor--may be decomposed into additive contributions due to within-secto..
Discussion Papers
Agriculture remains a primary source of income for our ruralfolks, and farming remains to be a major means of livelihood. In this issue of the DRN, PI..
Development Research News
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