Effects of Transportation on the Job Retention of UPLB BS Economics Graduates
Date
1-2024
Degree
Bachelor of Science in Economics
College
College of Economics and Management (CEM)
Adviser/Committee Chair
Ma. Nova R. Nguyen
Committee Member
Ma. Janda Ira Felina M. Benedictos, Gideon P. Carnaje, Ma. Angeles O. Catelo
Restrictions
Restricted: Not available to the general public and to those bound by the confidentiality agreement. Access is available only after consultation with author/thesis adviser.
Abstract
This study makes an attempt to show how transportation affects individuals' decision-making in staying in their jobs, termed as job retention in this paper. Previous studies showed that a person's decision to stay is driven by various factors such as their sociodemographic characteristics where age and income positively relates to job retention as well as employees' work environment. However, there limitation in available studies that investigated transportation as a factor in this decision-making. Transportation, transportation infrastructure, and the mobility of people have improved over time. This is also true for individuals' jobs whether they have a physical office or have adopted hybrid and/or online modes of working. In the Philippines, traffic congestion has long been a problem, and the country's traffic ranks among the worst in the world. Given the aim of the study to determine the role of transportation in this decision, this study employed a logistic regression using data collected from UPLB BS Economics graduates through an online survey. The model included sociodemographic characteristics, transportation variables, and work environment variables.
With the results, it was found that variables from the model have effects on decision to stay but limited variables has statistically significant results such as age, cost of home rental, household income, work-to-home travel time, and work-to-home distance. It was also found that the effect of transportation on decision to stay is reflected in the results taken from work-to-home travel time and work-to-home distance where better transportation affects job retention positively. The role of transportation on job retention is the ease it provides for the worker and how the availability of the means of transportations contributes to that ease. However, the sample size for this study only 40 out of the 135 target respondents which is a hindrance in the author's capability to make inferences.
Language
English
LC Subject
Employee retention, Transportation--Economic aspects
Location
UPLB College of Economics and Management (CEM)
Call Number
LG 993.5 2024 E2 P37
Recommended Citation
Parco, Ma. Jillian L., "Effects of Transportation on the Job Retention of UPLB BS Economics Graduates" (2024). Undergraduate Theses. 11781.
https://www.ukdr.uplb.edu.ph/etd-undergrad/11781
Document Type
Thesis
