As an important partner of China's "Belt and Road Initiative" in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is attracting deepened investment from Chinese enterprises by virtue of its demographic dividend of a young population, rapidly growing manufacturing and service industry foundations, and geographical advantag...
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employing the original data we collected in rural villages in the Philippines. For instance, boys may spend more time on leisure activities and less on studying, while girls are more likely to use their time for homework and other educational tasks, ...
One of the most striking aspects of China’s labor market is the robust participation of women. In 2023, women accounted for 320 million of the nation’s workforce, representing 43.3 percent of total employment—a slight but steady increase from previous years. In urban non-private sectors, fe...
Therefore, moonlighting was further classified into two cases that have been popularly used since then. The first case was moonlighting because the working hours of the main job were constrained. The sec- ond case was caused by constraints other than the limited working hours in the main job. ...
Using examples from recruitment processes in the Philippines, Latonero et al. (2015) showed how migrant workers without access to the same information as recruiters and employers can experience some negative consequences, including potential indicators of trafficking such as the imposition of high fees...
In addition to the recovery of travel, the Chinese Labor Day Holiday also saw a major uptick in sales for tourist attractions, events, and activities, with numbers in some cases exceeding 2019 levels. For instance, according to Ctrip data, the number of tickets sold for domestic scenic areas...
. Embassies and consulates also offer assistance and protection for their citizens in cases of arrest, detention, or loss of passports (see Lafleur & Vintila,2020), the latter mostly related to the frequent practice of employers to confiscate passports. However, in practice, migrant workers often...
This point is emphasized by Article 11 of the Regulations on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Cases in Internet Courts, issued by the Supreme People’s Court. In practice, the more widely used and recognized encryption technology are blockchain or trusted timestamps. Finally, once everyth...
Since there does not exist a rational expectation concerning competition between firms when \(n_0\in\left(s/b,\,3s/2b\right]\), symmetric equilibria do not exist in such cases. Put differently, if the firm sets a wage expecting, for example, that it does not need to compete for worker...