Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009

This article briefly examines the Philippines’ pattern of job creation during the period 2001-2009 in order to help explain why growth during this period failed to translate into poverty reduction. An analysis of disaggregated employment and sectoral output data provides a much more nuanced picture...

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Main Authors: Mendoza, Ronald U, Mahurkar, Padmini
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.asog-pubs-10862020-06-02T10:32:44Z Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009 Mendoza, Ronald U Mahurkar, Padmini This article briefly examines the Philippines’ pattern of job creation during the period 2001-2009 in order to help explain why growth during this period failed to translate into poverty reduction. An analysis of disaggregated employment and sectoral output data provides a much more nuanced picture of the types and sectors of jobs created during the last decade. The empirical evidence suggests that employment creation was inadequate, and skewed in favor of high skilled workers even across industries. Based on these findings, promoting inclusive growth in the Philippines requires a robust job creation strategy in order to meet the growing labor force, along with mechanisms to ensure skill upgrading and better skills matching (notably for the young) as well as efforts to bring even lower skilled workers into the formal sector. 2012-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/87 https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1086&context=asog-pubs Ateneo School of Government Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Inclusive Growth Employment Elasticity of Growth Informality Economic Policy Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
institution Ateneo De Manila University
building Ateneo De Manila University Library
country Philippines
collection archium.Ateneo Institutional Repository
topic Inclusive Growth
Employment Elasticity of Growth
Informality
Economic Policy
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
spellingShingle Inclusive Growth
Employment Elasticity of Growth
Informality
Economic Policy
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Mendoza, Ronald U
Mahurkar, Padmini
Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
description This article briefly examines the Philippines’ pattern of job creation during the period 2001-2009 in order to help explain why growth during this period failed to translate into poverty reduction. An analysis of disaggregated employment and sectoral output data provides a much more nuanced picture of the types and sectors of jobs created during the last decade. The empirical evidence suggests that employment creation was inadequate, and skewed in favor of high skilled workers even across industries. Based on these findings, promoting inclusive growth in the Philippines requires a robust job creation strategy in order to meet the growing labor force, along with mechanisms to ensure skill upgrading and better skills matching (notably for the young) as well as efforts to bring even lower skilled workers into the formal sector.
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author Mendoza, Ronald U
Mahurkar, Padmini
author_facet Mendoza, Ronald U
Mahurkar, Padmini
author_sort Mendoza, Ronald U
title Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
title_short Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
title_full Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
title_fullStr Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
title_full_unstemmed Snapshot of Non-Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Philippine Employment Trends in 2001-2009
title_sort snapshot of non-inclusive growth: evidence from philippine employment trends in 2001-2009
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2012
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/87
https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1086&context=asog-pubs
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