Labor market structures, pay gap, and skills in the Philippines

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The world of work is constantly evolving because jobs are created and destroyed, a process that is increasingly becoming conspicuous due to significant technological advances, notably in ICT and computing. Invariably, poor national skills profiles hurt the economy, impede the efficient and timely accumulation of advanced or highly technical skills, and potentially degrade job mobility and wage growth. Thus, understanding the structure of the labor market in the context of occupational skills is essential. This paper provides a skills-based characterization of the labor market and assesses how skills are distributed across the working population, emphasizing key gender differences, and highlighting spatial disparities. It also explains the observed gender pay gap using skills-augmented Mincerian regression models and the 2015 Labor Force Survey. [...]

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: PIDS Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2021-28

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: skills specificity ; occupational skills ; gender pay gap

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bayudan-Dacuycuy, Connie ; Dacuycuy, Lawrence B.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)
• (wo): Quezon City
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/256863
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ