Challenges to social mobility in Singapore

• Main Authors: HO, Kong Weng, TAN, Kheng Tat Marcus
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Social Mobility; Singapore; COVID-19; Social Compact; Migrant Workers; Inequality; Middle Income Class; Inclusive Growth; Asian Studies; Behavioral Economics; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2539
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Singapore had achieved impressive economic growth together with a high level of upward mobility since her independence in 1965. However, the growth process might have become more uneven, in addition to diminishing growth for a matured economy like Singapore, which is also a highly open city state su...