Unemployment brought down by overseas migration? Overseas migration (covering
temporary and permanent migration) is visibly up during the Arroyo administration —in large
part due to the increasing deployment of overseas workers or temporary migrants. But
homeland unemployment has not visibly gone down, while homeland underemployment (which
translates to low-quality, low productivity jobs) are still high. In fact, the ratio of the annual
number of departing temporary and permanent migrants to the homeland unemployed is getting
higher, reaching above 50 percent since 2007 [see Graphic Set 4].