Search Results - subject:"Filipinos"

Labeled remittances: a field experiment among Filipino migrant workers in the UAE

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; Yang, Dean - 2022 - This version: February 2022

We conducted a randomized experiment of the impact of remittance labeling among Filipino migrant workers in the UAE. The ability to label remittances with the migrant’s intended uses leads migrants with low levels of baseline (pre-treatment) remittances to increase their remittance levels....

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Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections

Barsbai, Toman; Licuanan, Victoria; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2022

How do information interventions affect individual efforts to expand social networks? We study a randomized controlled trial of a program providing information on settling in the U.S. for new immigrants from the Philippines. Improved information leads new immigrants to acquire fewer new social...

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The COVID-19 and Filipino migrant workers : looking into the Philippine government's post-COVID-19 support mechanism

Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Vargas, Anna Rita P.; Baiño, … - 2022

The COVID-19 was an unprecedented event that tested the capacity of the Philippine government in keeping migrant workers and their families protected and secured. It was not only a matter of simple repatriation process, but this also entailed a multi-dimensional system that encompasses...

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Analyzing Filipino migrant workers' access to social protection

Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Vargas, Anna Rita P.; Mondez, Maria … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people's livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which significantly relies on overseas remittances to boost household consumption, the return of hundreds of thousands of OFWs is a great reminder of the need for...

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Sentiment Analysis of Filipinos and Effects of Extreme Community Quarantine Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Pastor, Cherish Kay - 2021

reveal the sentiment of the Filipinos in the effect of extreme community quarantine caused by COVID-19 Pandemic particularly … community quarantine in the Luzon area. The sentiment reveals that most of the Filipinos encountered several problems concerning … be done based on the requirement of the Filipinos who encounter problem in the food shortage and everyone should support …

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Acculturative Experiences of An Immigrant Filipino Faith-Based Community

Santos, Jay Claus - 2021

waves that brought Filipinos to the U.S. and their cultural background were partly presented. Religiosity, mental health …

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A reset for overseas migration? : recent developments in Filipinos’ migration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Opiniano, Jeremaiah M. - 2021

Authored by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, this Migration Research Series paper explores some of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino overseas migrants and the responses and measures adopted by the Philippines in 2020. It reviews the main implications and challenges that were raised by the...

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Bilateral labor agreements and the migration of Filipinos : an instrumental variable approach

O'Steen, Brianna - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29

Bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) are preferred policy models for regulating migration by many governments around the world. The Philippines has been a leader in both agreement conclusion and exporting labor. A recent Congressional evocation is pushing bureaucrats and academics alike to...

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Care activism : migrant domestic workers, movement-building, and communities of care

Tungohan, Ethel - 2023

"Tungohan's project traces the arrival of migrant care workers in Canada beginning in the early twentieth century through to the contemporary age in which Filipina migrant care workers constitute nearly 95% of all live-in caregivers in the country. Within that timeline, the project concentrates...

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Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections

Barsbai, Toman - 2020

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