The Philippines is a country of net emigration
Highly educated Filipinos are more likely to plan to emigrate
Emigrant households have fewer family workers and are more likely to hire in external labour
Households benefitting from cash-based education programmes are less likely to have emigrants
Remittances represent 10% of the Philippines' GDP
Households receiving remittances have fewer working members
Remittance-receiving households are more likely to send their children to private schools
Households with bank accounts receive on average three times more remittances than households without
Households with a return migrant are more likely to own a business and real estate
Remittances continue to grow, 1995-2015
The Philippines' current account balance is healthy
Relative emigration and return migration rates differ little across provinces
Share of households, by migration experience
Most emigrants (men and women) emigrate to Gulf Cooperation Council countries
Most people emigrated for financial or job related reasons
Share of households receiving remittances
Seafarers sent twice as much money home
Households receiving remittances from a former member are most likely to invest in education
Migrants often return from East and Southeast Asian countries
Most migrants return because they prefer their home country
The health sector and highly skilled occupations are losing more workers to emigration
Households receiving remittances have fewer working members: Share of household members aged 15-64 who are working (%)
Return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants
Return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than when they left
Government agencies play a minor role in job seeking among Filipino IPPMD respondents
The weight of agriculture in the Philippines' economy continues to fall
Households with emigrants have fewer family workers, and are more likely to hire in labour
Surveyed households did not invest remittances in agriculture
Agricultural households with return migrants are more likely to own a non-agricultural business
Households benefiting from agricultural subsidies are less likely to have an emigrant
Mean years of schooling is relatively high in the Philippines
Highly educated individuals are more likely to plan to emigrate
Households with migration experience spend on average a larger share of their budget on education
Remittance-receiving households are more likely to send their children to private schools: Share of students attending private education (%)
In-kind distribution programmes are the most common education programmes
Households benefitting from cash-based education programmes are less likely to have emigrants: Share of households benefiting from education policies in the past five years, by migration experience
Fewer than one in three individuals has a bank account in the Philippines
Urban communities are better covered by financial service institutions
Households that receive remittances are more likely to own non-agricultural land and property
Households with a return migrant are more likely to own a business and real estate: Share of households owning business, housing and real estate (%), by return migration status
Households with bank accounts receive on average three times more remittances than households without: Amounts of remittances received (in PHP), by having a bank account or not
Few households in the sample benefited from financial training