{"id":15890,"date":"2025-01-16T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=15890"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:12:03","slug":"shape-of-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/shape-of-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape of labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decline in employment in November 2024 shows that hyped rapid economic growth is jobless. Labor force participation has also shrunk, likely including many Filipinos discouraged from actively seeking work due to the lack of decent job opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-lfpr-v2-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Filipinos lack savings and are so poor that they can\u2019t afford to be unemployed. But because decent regular formal jobs are scarce, the overwhelming majority struggle with self-employment, informal work, or irregular jobs in informal establishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lfs-informality-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline in employment in November 2024 shows that hyped rapid economic growth is jobless. Labor force participation has also shrunk, likely including many Filipinos discouraged from actively seeking work due to the lack of decent job opportunities. Most Filipinos lack savings and are so poor that they can\u2019t afford to be unemployed. But because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[1314,3484,134,995,2972,3720,2545,309],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}