underemployment
Unstable labor market
November 27, 2025
Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON
June 8, 2025
Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]
How do the Senatorial candidates fare on jobs?
May 9, 2025
All senatorial aspirants say jobs should be prioritized, but who among them vie for decent, sustainable jobs from a robust, domestic economy?
Falling employment, higher underemployment signs of unsolved PH jobs crisis-IBON
May 8, 2025
The rise in underemployment reflects the unresolved jobs crisis where existing jobs pay poorly.
What’s not being said about PH employment
April 11, 2025
The actual situation of millions of Filipinos, not official statistics, are the main determinant of how bad the jobs situation is.
Worsening informality behind rise in employment – IBON
April 8, 2025
Worsening jobs informality and lack of gainful work is driving the rise in employment and big decline in underemployment as indicated in the latest official data.
Filipino workers struggling despite reported drop in unemployment, underemployment — IBON
January 8, 2025
The decline in unemployment and underemployment should be a positive development, but it seems that millions of Filipinos are still not feeling the benefits of a “robust” labor market.
Filipino families left behind despite govt’s vibrant labor market claim – IBON
October 8, 2024
Instead of being overly fixated on surface job numbers, the Marcos administration should open its eyes to the reality that millions of Filipino families are barely earning enough from whatever work they can find.
