This Labor Market Situationer contains data and analyses of the results of the Annual Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), covering years from 2015 to 2017. It contains data on main labor market statistics such as the country’s working age population, those in the labor force and not in the labor continue reading
Rapid Assessment Of Program Implementation In Selected Dole Regional Offices
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is the national government agency mandated to formulate and implement policies and programs, and serve as the policy-advisory arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and employment. Part of the mandate of the Regional Operations and General Administrations cluster is to supervise all DOLE Regional continue reading
Introducing A Dole Integrated Unemployment Benefit Program
This research intends to propose a convergence of DOLE programs that will particularly cater to the needs of the unemployed or the displaced workers. This research assesses the readiness of the Department of Labor and Employment to administer and implement an integrated unemployment benefit program by way of analyzing the following component areas: (1) review continue reading
Enhancing skills demand-supply nexus: A gap analysis of the Bureau of Local Employment’s programs in line with the Philippine Qualifications Framework implementation
This research intends to provide pathways to integrate the aims and elements of the Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) into the programs of the Bureau of Local Employment (BLE). It seeks to bolster the bureau’s active role in the implementation of the PQF by ensuring that its programs are implemented in consonance with the PQF objectives. continue reading
Responsiveness of Labor Market to Minimum Wage Adjustments: An Analysis Using Elasticity to Labor Supply and Demand
In essence, wage is a monetary compensation paid by an employer to employee in exchange for the services rendered to the former. The basic principle of paying wages follows the notion that any resources, be it like a commodity (e.g. rice, clothes, etc.), or a resource like land and labor, has its own price or continue reading
Macroeconomics and Modelling for Labor Market Analysis: Philippines Employment Projection Model and Key Indicators of the Labor Market
The increasing number of Filipinos until 2020 have led to more of them entering the labor force particularly the youth. In seven years, it is projected that the country’s average employment-to-population ratio of 0.61, or more than half of the labor force are employed, is a proof showing the capability of the labor market to continue reading