This qualitative study probes into the teleworking experiences of married men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic and analyzes how teleworking affects their productivity, mental well-being, and family life. Four married males and four married females who were teleworking due to the pandemic...

This paper aims to explore empirically, using vector autoregression (VAR) analysis and weekly regional data for the 17 Philippine regions, the interactions between the Covid-19 pandemic, economic mobility, and containment policy. The authors conclude that COVID-19 deaths and incidence primarily...

The 2018 PISA report revealed that 71.8 percent of participating students from the Philippines have failed to reach minimum basic learning thresholds, raising doubts about the state of education in the country. While most East Asian economies lead the world in terms of their significant share of...

Using work from home (WFH) scores obtained by matching Philippine occupations with classifications defined by Dingle and Neiman (2020), this paper estimates that only 12.38 percent of all workers can work from home and 25.7 percent of Philippine occupations are teleworkable, mostly from the...

This paper adopts the approach used by Brussevich et al. (2020) to identify the worker characteristics associated with an increased probability of working from home. Using the same teleworkability scores in the merged 2015 Philippine Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and 2016 First...