A bittersweet treat: Impact of OFW remittances on labor hours worked per week using selected socio-demographic variables of the household head

• Main Authors: Braganza, Vina A., Gutierrez, Eric Francis C., Meneses, Jaymee Anne A., Olaso, Joanne Francelle L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Foreign workers, Filipino; Emigrant remittances > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14724
• Institution: De La Salle University

Remittances play a very important part to the households that receive them. Remittances are money endowed by migrants to their families at their home country. Many consider them as additional or non-labor income, used for consumption and investment purposes. However, it seems that more and more recipients become heavily dependent on these remittances for their households needs. The presence of another source of income would give an individual less incentive to work and may cause him to choose leisure over labor. The aim of this study is to determine if remittances have an impact on the labor participation of households heads. From using the merged FIEs, LFS and SOW dataset of the Philippines and OLS regression models, it was concluded that remittances do impose less number of hours worked last week for the household heads that receive them from those that do not. It was also observed that results vary according to gender and the region where the household head resides