Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Ernesto M. Pernia Author-Name-First: Ernesto Author-Name-Last: Pernia Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: An Emperial Model of Individual and Household Migration Choice : Philippines 1965-1973 Abstract: Most migration studies have used aggregate data to test hypotheses concerning individual migration behavior. This paper attempts to understand migration behavior more directly by analyzing data on individuals and households. The decision to migrate or stay is viewed as influenced by individual or household attributes and certain external factors that impinge on the individuals or household. Additionally, income-earning capacity and employment or occupation are assumed to be sequentially determined with migration. The migration decision model is specified in logic form and estimated, using the maximum likelihood method, with data from the 1973 National Demographic Survey (NDS). In general, personal and household characteristics are found to be more significant in the decision to migrate than external factor, which have been stressed by previous studies. Kinship ties at destination seem to be the decisive factor in the choice to migrate. Occupation at destination appears to interact more strongly with migration than income. With respect to policy, such factors as education, employment, and kinship stand out as potential vehicles for migration policy. Creation-Date: 1977-01 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. DP 1977-01, January 1977 Number: 197701 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197701 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Honorata A. Moreno Author-Name-First: Honorata Author-Name-Last: Moreno Author-Name: Nilda Vasquez Author-Name-First: Nilda Author-Name-Last: Vasquez Title: A Survey of the Financial Structure of Some Selected Corporations in the Philippines Creation-Date: 1977-02 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-02, February 1977 Number: 197702 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197702 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Ernesto M. Pernia Author-Name-First: Ernesto Author-Name-Last: Pernia Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: Urbanization and Economic Development in the Philippines: Some Implications for Regional Policy Abstract: The paper analyzes urbanization in the context of population growth, migration, and economic development. It suggests that the process of national urbanization decelerated in the post-war period due to the acceleration of population growth in the rural sector, stagnant agricultural productivity, and capital-intensive industialization. The common concern about rapid urbanization due to massive rural-to-urban migration would seem to be better directed to the unremitting movement of population to the metropolitan region and the consequent widening disparities between this region and all the other regions. The major determinants of rural-urban population shifts appear to be socioeconomic development factors in both rural and urban sectors rather than demographic pressure in rural areas, suggesting that rural development may not be considered as an antidote to urbanization. Rather, it implies that rural development along with a purposive and well-designed industrial location strategy can make important contributions to a policy of more balanced urbanization. Although rural demographic pressure may not have been effective as yet in unleashing population, it may well be so in the near future as land frontiers disappear and rural density "limits" are reached. A serious regional development policy is, therefore, needed so that potential massive population flows can be re-routed to areas other than the metropolitan region. Creation-Date: 1977-03 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-03, March 1977 Number: 197703 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197703 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Felipe M. Medalla Author-Name-First: Felipe Author-Name-Last: Medalla Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: Growth, Employment and Wage Performance in the Manufacturing Sector : A Comparative Study of Japan and the Philippines Abstract: This paper looks into the "growth vs. equity" issue by comparing wages and employment in the manufacturing sector in the Philippines and in Prewar Japan (with special emphasis on the period before 1920). On the whole, it seems that the growth of the manufacturing sector contributed more to increased inequality in the Philippines than in Japan. To some extent, this might have been due to the effects of government policies in the Philippines. Thus, changes in policies may lead to both increased growth and reduced inequality. It is also very possible, however, that the growth of the manufacturing sector in the Philippines contributed more to increased inequality than in Japan (or failed to make for a narrowing of income disparities) because of more basic and non-policy induced factors. The differences between the size-structures of factory employment in the Philippines and in Prewar Japan, for example, are not as striking as suggested by a superficial comparison of factory statistics of the two economies. The major dissimilarities between the manufacturing sectors of the two economies can be found in the unorganized sub-sectors and the rather early setting in of dualism in Philippine manufacturing. As such, nothing short of a sustained boom in export of manufactures may be required to make growth and equity objectives complementary. Creation-Date: 1977-04 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-04, April 1977 Number: 197704 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197704 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Romeo M. Bautista Author-Name-First: Romeo Author-Name-Last: Bautista Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: Recent External Disturbances and the Philippine Economy Creation-Date: 1977-05 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-05, May 1977 Number: 197705 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197705 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Jose Encarnacion, Jr. Author-Name-First: Jose Jr. Author-Name-Last: Encarnacion Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: Population and Development in Southeast Asia : A Fertility Model Creation-Date: 1977-06 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-06, June 1977 Number: 197706 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197706 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Jose Encarnacion, Jr. Author-Name-First: Jose Jr. Author-Name-Last: Encarnacion Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: Income Distribution in Manila, Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao Creation-Date: 1977-07 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-07, July 1977 Number: 197707 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197707 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Gonzalo M. Jurado Author-Name-First: Gonzalo Author-Name-Last: Jurado Author-Name: Judy S. Castro Author-Name-First: Judy Author-Name-Last: Castro Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: The Informal Sector in the Greater Manila Area: An Overview Creation-Date: 1977-08 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-08, August 1977 Number: 197708 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197708 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Gonzalo M. Jurado Author-Name-First: Gonzalo Author-Name-Last: Jurado Author-Name: Rosa Linda P. Tidalgo Author-Name-First: Rosa Linda Author-Name-Last: Tidalgo Author-Workplace-Name: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman Title: The Informal Service Sector in the Greater Manila Area Creation-Date: 1977-09 Publication-Status: Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1977-09, September 1977 Number: 197709 Handle: RePEc:phs:dpaper:197709