scholarly journals STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND INTERREGIONAL INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1975-2009

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Akita ◽  
Mark Saliganan Pagulayan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
The Philippines

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Key Sectors in the Philippine Economy Using an AHP-Based Sector Prioritization Index

Economies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Daryn Joy Go ◽  
Michael Angelo Promentilla ◽  
Kathleen Aviso ◽  
Krista Danielle Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Output Analysis ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Key Sectors

Economic sectors play a vital role in ensuring that government’s goals are achieved. This study analyzes the evolution of the structure and key sectors of an economy through the use of a sector prioritization index. This methodology integrates input-output analysis and analytic hierarchy process to determine the structural changes experienced by the economy, while accounting for the changes in the government’s priorities and concerns over time. Using the case of the Philippines from 1969 to 2012, this study shows a time-series analysis of the transformation that the economy underwent alongside with the government’s prioritization mechanism. We found that the manufacturing sector had consistently received high-priority rankings, while the agriculture sector had recently moved from a high- to mid-priority ranking, indicating the country’s shift towards a more industry-driven economy. These findings were supported by the private services and trade sectors’ high-priority rankings towards the latter half of the time period. Overall, our methodology was able to identify key sectors that reflect the country’s economic and political situation across different eras.

scholarly journals Impact of Economic Growth Per Capita and Foreign Direct Investment on Income Inequality in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 10013
Author(s):  
Suryahani Irma ◽  
Susilowati Indah ◽  
S. B. M. Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Better Than

Income inequality is an important issue in Indonesia. Currently the income inequality in Indonesia is worse than in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, although it is better than the Philippines and China. This study aimed to analyze the influence of economic growth per capita and foreign direct investment on income inequality in Indonesia.The study period was from 2007 to 2016. This study used a multiple linear regression. The results showed that economic growth per capita and foreign direct investmenthad positive influence onincome inequality. Therefore, the role of economic growth per capita and foreign direct investment will remain high in the future.

scholarly journals FINANCE AND INEQUALITY IN EIGHT ASIAN COUNTRIES: DOES SIZE MATTER?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Mansor Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Equal Income ◽  
Size Threshold ◽  
Size Matter

The present paper seeks to assess the implications of increasing financial sector size on income inequality in eight Asian countries - Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea.  Adopting a panel data approach, it document a non-linear relation between income inequality and financial sector size in these countries.  More precisely, the increasing financial sector size is favourable to equal income distribution only up until a size threshold, beyond which further expansion of the financial sector can worsen income distribution.  The analysis further highlights the income-equalizing effect of economic growth and infrastructure development and the income un-equalizing effect of trade and government expenditures.  These results are robust to alternative model specifications and to exclusion of a country at a time from the sample.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512092648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano ◽  
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Facilitation ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Online Labor

The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in the Philippines—digital workers obtaining “gigs” from online labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph—for social facilitation and collective organizing. The article first problematizes labor marginality in the context of online freelance platform workers situated in the middle of competing narratives of precarity and opportunity. We then examine unique forms of solidarity emerging from social media groups formed by these geographically spread digital workers. Drawing from participant observation in online freelance Facebook groups, as well as interviews and focus groups with 31 online freelance workers located in the cities of Manila, Cebu, and Davao, we found that online Filipino freelancers maintain active social interaction and exchange that can be construed as “entrepreneurial solidarities.” These solidarities are characterized by competing discourses of ambiguity, precarity, opportunity, and adaptation that are articulated and visualized through ambient socialities. While we argue that these entrepreneurial solidarities do not reflect a passive and simplistic acceptance of neoliberal discourses about digital labor by digital workers, the solidarities forged in these groups also work to undermine their resistive potential such that these tend to reinforce rather than impose pressure toward critical structural changes that can improve the viability of digital labor conditions.

Clientelist Politics in the Philippines: Integration or Instability?

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 1147-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Nowak ◽  
Kay A. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
Voting Participation ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Deficit Spending ◽  
The Government

Philippine data are presented which indicate that a contradiction exists between changes induced partly through capital accumulation by the indigenous elite and foreign investment, and both increased political factionalism and declining voting participation. While national elites become more powerful through capital accumulation, local political machines confront structural changes weakening their power. More specialized patron-client structures diminish local elites' ability both to deliver votes to national patrons and to stimulate electoral participation. Growth of the middle class in a stagnant economy increases competition for lucrative local political office Factions proliferate and with the increased concentration of private income, become more dependent on national patronage resources. Unable to meet rising patronage demands, the government resorts to extensive deficit spending which stimulates inflation and further undermines economic growth. The national elite's economic activities thus undermines its authority base as the state becomes increasingly less able to provide security to individuals dislocated by changes generating profit for the elite.

Why China Needs to Urgently Address its Rising Income Inequality

2013 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
John WONG
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Recently, China published its Gini coefficients for the past 10 years, which all exceeded the warning level of 0.4. China's inequality level is among the highest 10% of countries in the world. In fact, the sources of China's income inequality stemmed from the sources of China's economic growth. Long-term remedy requires fundamental structural changes like removing institutional biases against equality and providing a more equal access to educational and income-earning opportunities.

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Segregation in the Paris Metro Area (1990–2015)

2021 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Haley McAvay ◽  
Gregory Verdugo
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
Metro Area ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn the last decades, the Paris metro area has experienced important structural changes linked to rising income inequality and a rapidly growing immigrant population. Using census data from 1990, 1999 to 2015, this chapter explores these transformations and how they have shaped trends in residential segregation. We find that the occupational structure of the area shifted upwards in the recent decade with a substantial increase in the share of the top occupational groups. This trend, however, did not primarily concern the immigrant population, which nonetheless experienced a growth in the middle class. These trends were further accompanied by an increase in income inequality driven by rising wages among the top 1% earners. Despite these changes, dissimilarity indexes between socioeconomic groups and between natives and immigrants have remained quite stable over the period. However, interaction indexes suggest that neighbourhoods are becoming more homogenous over time, both in terms of socioeconomic and ethnic diversity. Finally, the findings shed light on the correlation between socioeconomic and immigrant segregation. Socioeconomic disadvantage and the presence of immigrants within neighbourhoods, especially of non-European origin, are tightly correlated, and that correlation became stronger over time.

Inequality among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005

2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 903-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Western ◽  
Deirdre Bloome ◽  
Christine Percheski
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
American Families

From 1975 to 2005, the variance in incomes of American families with children increased by two-thirds. In attempting to explain this trend, labor market studies emphasize the rising pay of college graduates, while demographers typically highlight the implications of family structural changes across time. In this article, we join these lines of research by conceiving of income inequality as the joint product of the distribution of earnings in the labor market and the pooling of incomes in families. We develop this framework with a decomposition of family income inequality using annual data from the March Current Population Survey. Our analysis shows that disparities in education and single parenthood contributed to income inequality, but rising educational attainment and women's employment offset these effects. Most of the increase in family income inequality was due to increasing within-group inequality, which was widely shared across family types and levels of schooling.

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