No jobs. Ok, few jobs. People study and finish college but there are hardly any real jobs waiting for them. If there are jobs, they pay so little.

So Filipinos are forced to go abroad. Doesn’t matter where. They just want out. Migrant work as temporary workers is what Filipinos do because there’s nothing back home. Better if they can emigrate permanently to some First World Country. Too bad those countries are mostly selective about picking only people with good credentials. Most ordinary Filipinos, thus, qualify only for contract-based overseas employment. All because jobs are few in the Philippines and whatever jobs there are pay starvation-wages.

Why? It’s quite simple. That’s because of the Law of Supply and demand. Too few jobs but too many jobseekers means that the jobseekers compete against each other and end up bidding down wages. Contrast that to countries where there are more jobs than jobseekers: It’s the companies that compete against other companies to attract jobseekers for their job-openings.