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Village characteristics and employment choice in rural Philippines

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Village characteristics and employment choice in rural Philippines
 
Creator Chua, Karl Kendrick Tiu; Department of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City
 
Subject labor demand; human capital; skills; occupational choice; labor; productivity
 
Description This paper examines Philippine rural employment choice and patterns. It uses a first-of-a-kind dataset that consolidates data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey 2000 (FIES), the Census of Population Barangay Schedule 2000 (CPH5), and the Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) Level of Development Assessment 2000 (ALDA). A multinomial logit model is utilized to determine employment likelihood in different sectors given a set of individual and household attributes, and village characteristics. The results reveal that the lack of facilities, services, and formal establishments is primarily responsible for keeping rural dwellers in the impoverished agricultural and informal service sectors. This study also shows that individual and household attributes are generally in accord with theory and other empirical studies.
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2004-12-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/172
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 41, No 2 (2004)
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/172/583
 
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