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Costal fishing, mainly with wooden-hulled outriggers is a major source of employment.

Courtesy Philippine Tourist Research and Planning Organization

A high rate of population growth, lack of access to land, insuffÍÍÍÍicient job creation in industry, and a history of inappropriate economic policies contributed to high unemployment and underemployment and a relatively high proportion of the labor force being in low-productivity, service sector jobs in the late 1980s. Real wages were low, having declined at about 3 percent per year since 1960, and relatively weak labor unions were unable to substantially affect the deterioration of workers' earning power.

Data as of June 1991