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    Quality of Jobs in the Philippines: Comparing Self-Employment with Wage Employment

    Hasan, Rana; Jandoc, Karl Robert L. | March 2009
    Abstract
    Analysis of labor force survey data from 1994 to 2007 reveals that the structure of the Philippines labor force has been changing in several important ways. One is the movement from self-employment, the most predominant form of employment, to wage employment across a wide range of production sectors. How does one evaluate this change in terms of workers’ earnings—arguably the most important element of job quality? Since labor force survey data do not provide information on earnings of the self-employed we combine information on household incomes (disaggregated by source) from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) with information on household members’ employment-related activities from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) to shed light on this question. We also examine broad trends in the structure of employment, wages, and earnings. Our findings suggest that the decline of self-employment is no bad thing. For the most part, the earnings and educational profiles of the self-employed are very similar to those of casual wage earners, and clearly dominated by those of permanent wage earners even when observable worker characteristics are controlled for. An implication is that the self-employed do not seem to be “capitalists in waiting” as noted in recent literature. As selfemployment gives way to wage employment, especially casual wage employment in the services sector, the key challenge for policy is tackling the slow growth of wages and earnings indicated by both LFS and FIES data.
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    Hasan, Rana; Jandoc, Karl Robert L.. 2009. Quality of Jobs in the Philippines: Comparing Self-Employment with Wage Employment. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1800. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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    1655-5252
    Keywords
    Poverty Analysis
    Participatory Poverty Assessment
    Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Extreme Poverty
    Economic development
    Growth And Poverty
    Income Distribution
    Demographic Indicators
    Social Justice
    Price stabilization
    Food prices
    Price policy
    Social change
    Social accounting
    Inequality of income
    Economic growth
    Qualilty of Life
    Open price system
    Price fixing
    Price regulation
    Consumer price indexes
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    Hasan, Rana
    Jandoc, Karl Robert L.
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    Poverty
    Economics

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