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(Eagle News)–The country’s underemployment rate in July has gone down to 13.9 percent. Based on data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority on Thursday, Sept. 5, the rate is 3.3 percent less than the rate recorded on the same month last year. According to the PSA, employment rate was at 94.6 percent, the same rate recorded in July last year. The PSA said workers in the services sector comprised the largest proportion of the employed […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday, May 2, noted the number of employed in the country increased to 41.8 million in January 2018, based on a study done by think-tank IBON Foundation. Roque made the clarification following reports, citing the IBON study, that the number of underemployed grew by 1.1 million in January 2018, from the 6.4 million recorded in January 2017. IBON said the underemployed now translates to 18 percent of the […]
