Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58451 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6204
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study examines how the 2008-2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market, with a focus on gendered outcomes. A battery of descriptive statistics and probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women experienced declines in the likelihood of employment, especially in 2008 and in manufacturing. While men's job losses were limited to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one considers education as a proxy for skill, results suggest that unskilled workers were affected most adversely when the crisis began, especially in terms of employment losses, but as the crisis conditions wore on, skilled workers experienced negative impacts as well, especially in terms of real wage cuts.
Subjects: 
crises
Philippines
women
labor market
JEL: 
J31
J24
O12
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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