Stuck at a Crossroad: A Microeconometric Analysis of Fertility and Married Female Labor Force Supply in the Philippinesdoi:10.2139/ssrn.2830888FertilityMarried Female Labor SupplyEndogeneityIV ProbitThis study investigated the link between fertility and married female labor supply of Filipino women using ...
3.2Labor Force 3.2.1General Situation The size of the labor force in a country can be defined as the population in the productive age group multiplied by thelabor force participation rate. In turn, the labor force participation rate can be calculated as the ratio of the labor force to the ...
This study examines the impact of mothers’ labor force participation (MLFP) on child time allocation to explore the associating factors with boys’ disengagement from education in developing regions. Using original time-use data from the rural Philippines and employing exogenous institutional changes in...
Thus, based on this approach, the central policy route to gender equality would clearly be an increase in women’s labor force participation over the life course. Finally, many feminist-oriented labor market studies tried to establish that women’s paid work, female labor force participation, ...
Also found in:Thesaurus,Encyclopedia. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. labor resources- resources of available manpower resource- available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed ...
After the United States acquired the Southwest by force in the Mexican War, it again faced the question of slavery. In 1850, Congress altered the geographic limits on slavery established by the Missouri Compromise. California was admitted as a free state, but the Utah and New Mexico Territories...
But prompted by increased exposure to foreign markets and fearing future global crises, more and more developing countries (including lower middle-income countries such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka) are contemplating to introduce UI. Such considerations are bolstered by the potential efficiency and...
This implies that a group of workers in this age range might do better work compared to both younger and older workers (those below 30 years old). On the other hand, the “Horndal Effect”, demonstrated by the experience of a steel plant in Sweden, presents a different viewpoint. It ...
Although there is no difference in the impact of remittances on the health outcome of boys and girls, remittances improve the educational outcome of girls more than the educational outcome of boys. Further, remittances decrease the female labor force participation rate but do not affect the male ...
Additionally, we began work on a project on the Philippines’ BLA program, and through that process we learned that the Philippines had signed at least 68 BLAs. This number was higher than the Philippine BLAs we had previously been able to identify, and higher even than the number of BLAs ...