Underemployment/Unemployment

• Cause

  • Lack of education
  • Lack of experience
  • Job mismatch
  • Job discrimination
  • Leaving one job to find another
  • Lack of relevant skills/competencies
• Effects

  • Poverty
  • Mental health problems
  • Immigration
  • Working student/part timer
  • Dead end job
• 69%: rate of Filipinos that had no work or income
• Government Actions

  • Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
  • Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
  • Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
  • Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD)
• Unemployment: no job or income
• Underemployment: no regular source of income