Tapping the potential of married women in Singapore : the role of married women in augmenting Singapore's shrinking labour force

• Main Authors: Wan, Tin Wai, Tan, Celestia Wan Cheng, Nur Atiqah Abdul Razak
• Other Authors: David Alexander Reisman
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/58984
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Singapore, it is observed that married women tend to drop out of the labour force in order to commit to caregiving. This represents an under-utilisation of the female human capital. Given Singapore’s rapidly ageing population and tightening foreign labour policy, there is increasing need to optim...