Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Geoffrey Ducanes Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Economics Title: Are remittances inducing laziness in households?: a reexamination of the evidence Abstract: This study reexamines the available evidence on the often-repeated claim that international migration of a household member and the resulting remittances typically lead to laziness in the receiving households. The study Þnds, after replicating previous studies and testing the claim using more recent data, that there is in fact weak or no evidence to support such claim. Classification-JEL: F22, F24, J22 Keywords: international migration, remittances, labor supply, replication Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 1-24 Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: December File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/883/782 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:49:y:2012:i:2:p:1-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kazuhiro Ohnishi Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for Basic Economic Science, Japan Title: Quantity-setting games with lifetime employment contracts as a strategic commitment Abstract: This paper considers lifetime employment contracts asa strategic commitment and examines the respectiveequilibrium outcomes of the two cases of a quantity-setting duopoly game with substitute goods and a quantity-setting duopoly game with complementary goods. First, in the quantity-setting game with substitute goods, we Þnd that there is an equilibrium in which both the firms adopt lifetime employment. Next, in the quantity-setting game withcomplementary goods, we Þnd that there is an equilibrium in which at least one Þrm adopts lifetime employment, and that lifetime employment is beneÞcial for both Þrms. Classification-JEL: C72, D21, L13 Keywords: quantity-setting model; substitute goods; complementary goods; lifetime employment contract Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 25-40 Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: December File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/884/783 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:49:y:2012:i:2:p:25-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benito Legarda, Jr Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University Title: The Spanish ßag over an Anglo-Chinese commercial colony: the Philippines in the 19th century Abstract: Nineteenth-century Philippines, unlike most colonies, was not economically dependent on its mother country, Spain, which ranked generally only fourth among its trading partners, behind the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. The index-measured concentration of Philippine trade was only moderately high owing to competition among its trading partners. Foreign trading was mainly conducted by the British and Americans. The Chinese were pervasive in domestic trade. Thus arose the jibe that the Philippines was an Anglo-Chinese colony with a Spanish ßag. With the growth of foreign trade, wealth circulated into the rural areas, assisting in the rise of a native middle class. But there were costs, among them the destruction of the domestic textile industry. With the coming of the United States, the Philippines once again came under a unitary politico-economic metropole, leading to a high degree of economic complementarity lasting until long after World War II. Classification-JEL: N70 Keywords: trade concentration, economic complementarity, economic dependence Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 41-50 Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: December File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/885/784 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:49:y:2012:i:2:p:41-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dennis S. Mapa Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Statistics Author-Name: Michael Daniel Lucagbo Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Statistics Author-Name: Heavenly Joy Garcia Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Statistics Title: The link between agricultural output and the states of poverty in the Philippines: evidence from self-rated poverty data Abstract: The high poverty incidence in the country is a concern that needs to be addressed by our policy makers. OfÞcial poverty statistics from the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) show that the reduction in poverty over the past two decades has been quite dismal from 38 percent in 1988 to 26 percent in 2009, or less than 1 percent reduction per year. Since poverty incidence has dynamic patterns, studies using ofÞcial poverty data encounter difficulty because of alimited number of data points. This study builds econometric models in analysing the movement of poverty in the country using the quarterly self-rated poverty series of the Social Weather Stations. The Þrst model uses Markov Switching to determine the states of poverty. It assumes two states: high andmoderate states of poverty. A high 61 percent of the population considered themselves poor when the country is in the state of high poverty. In times of moderate poverty, 49.5 percent of the population consider themselves poor. The result shows thatonce the country is in the state of high poverty, it stays there for an average of 24 quarters, or six years, before moving out. The paper then builds a logistic regression model to show what determines the states of high poverty. The model shows that a 1 percent increase in agricultural output in the previous quarter reduces the probability of being in the high state of poverty by about 8 percentage points, all things being the same. The study shows that poverty incidence in the country is dynamic, and frequent monitoring through self-rated poverty surveys is important in order to assess the effectiveness of the government programs in reducing poverty. The self-rated poverty surveys can complement the ofÞcial statistics on poverty incidence. Classification-JEL: C53, I38, I32, Q10 Keywords: Markov switching, logistic regression, self-rated poverty Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 51-74 Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: December File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/886/785 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:49:y:2012:i:2:p:51-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Angelo Paolo Kalaw Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Economics Author-Name: Andrew Nieto Author-Workplace-Name: UP School of Economics Title: An economic analysis of the differences in responses and help-seeking behavior of women victims of spousal violence in the Philippines Abstract: This paper analyses the behavior of Women victims of spousal violence in the Philippines, and the determinants and factors affecting their decision to respond or seek help. Using the 2008 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey, we model the response behavior of women victims to be a random utility maximization problem in which they face a set of discrete and unordered strategy alternatives that havedifferent expected utilities and level of appropriateness to their experience of domestic violence. Results of our multinomial logit regression reveal that womenÕs decision and differences in their response and help-seeking behavior are affected by their socioeconomic characteristics; the marital capital of her relationship; and the kind, combination, and consequences of the violence. The results also revealthat women seek third-party intervention not based on the experience of violence per se but on the materiality and tangibility of consequences sustained. From our regression results, we provided inputs to the implementation of Republic Act 9262 in order to better help women cope with, adjust to, defend themselves, and recover from domestic violence. Classification-JEL: D10, D19, D63, I38,J12 Keywords: domestic violence, women victim responses to violence, helpseeking behavior, RA 9262 Journal: Philippine Review of Economics Pages: 75-116 Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: December File-URL: http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/887/786 File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:49:y:2012:i:2:p:75-116