00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862409120 Buklod 20210506145848.0 m | | ta 210706s2015 xx a r |||| u|eng d 16551516 (iLib)UPBAG-00040067453 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3388 Chua, Karl Kendrick author. Urban-rural income and wage gaps in the Philippines measurement error, unequal endowments, or factor market failure? Karl Kendrick Chua, Louie Limkin, John Nye, Jeffrey Williamson. [Quezon City] School of Economics, University of the Philippines 2015. pages 1-21 illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Title was 'Philippine Review of Business and Economics' until 1979. Title changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics and Business' from 1980-2000, and again changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics' since 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21) Income inequality is higher in the Philippines than in most of its Asian neighbors, and spatial inequality accounts for a fairly large share of it. There is little evidence of labor market failure in the Philippines since, when properly measured, wage gaps by skill level are modest. Unequal endowments account for most of the urban-rural income gaps. That is, individual attributes of workers and households explain the majority of the urban-rural gaps, and schooling, skill, and experience are the three individual characteristics that matter most. Provincial variables, like typhoon incidence, government corruption, school crowding, and access to health facilities, matter far less. Workers born in the cities and immigrants to the cities invest more in human capital than do rural workers. However, this paper cannot tell us how much of that is due to better human-capital-building infrastructure supply in the cities and how much is due to higher urban demand for that infrastructure. Income distribution Philippines. Wages Philippines. Limkin, Louie author. Nye, John author. Williamson, Jeffrey author. The Philippine Review of Economics Vol. 52, no. 2 (December 2015), p. 1-21. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3388 Analytics