This paper provides the first systematic evidence on the nature of the relation between executive compensation and firm performance in the Philippines. Comparable to studies of Japan, Korea, and China, we find a positive relation between executive compensation and performance in the Philippines...

The study examines the roles of experience and education in explaining the increase in wage inequality among Philippine male workers between 1988 and 1995. It also provides a methodological approach to the analysis of wage inequality by combining non-parametric methods with semiparametric...

This study is concerned with the validation of parametric functional representations of the conditional mean of wages using Philippine data. This is done in the light of studies confirming relative weaknesses associated with parametric approaches to the modelling of human capital earnings...

This article provides counterfactual extensions to the Fields inequality decomposition framework and at the same time uses the nonparametric methodology in estimating bootstrap SEs and constructing confidence intervals. For methodological illustration, we decompose changes in schooling's...