By Editha Rivera (Excerpted from the milestone paper by the Chief Labor and Employment Officer of the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES), Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE), Manila, Philippines "Redefining the Labor Force Framework: Some Inputs from the Philippine Experience." The paper was prepared for the seminar on "Employment and unemployment: Revisiting the relevance and conceptual basis of the statistics" conducted by the International Labour Office on December 4 to 5, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.) The Philippine Labor Force Survey (LFS) has been collected by the...
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