Director (Research Administration) of the Office of Research Professor Winston Koh was involved in a diving accident while on a private diving trip in Pulau Dayang, Malaysia. Prof Koh had been…
SMU Associate Professor of Economics (Practice) Tan Kim Song was one of the panellists at the Economic Society of Singapore forum on the Population White Paper held on Monday.
In this year’s Budget, the government sees raising productivity as key to boosting wages for low-income Singaporeans. To counter the painful effects of economic structuring, the government has set…
On the latest round of foreign labour tightening policy, Associate Dean of the SMU School of Economics Professor Hoon Hian Teck commented that even though the tightening resulted in stress for…
Associate Dean of the SMU School of Economics Professor Hoon Hian Teck discussed how this year's Budget helps both workers and companies push for higher productivity. The Workfare Income Supplement (…
Commenting on Budget 2013, SMU Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck said that the Government has ensured that the elderly benefit most from the Budget. This was an indication that we are moving…
Two commentaries published in the past fortnight questioning some tenets of the Population White Paper have spurred rigorous discussion on the number of foreign workers Singapore requires going…
Even as the People's Action Party (PAP) and the Workers' Party (WP) traded comparison tables and barbed comments in Parliament, a casual onlooker might be forgiven for wondering just what they were…
Associate Dean of the SMU School of Economics and Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck discussed the future of wages in Singapore and identified major trends affecting Singapore's labour market over…
On the White Paper on Population, SMU Associate Dean of the SMU School of Economics and Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck commented that out of the projected population of 6.9 million, over 2…
