This paper traces the employment trends by gender in various industries, occupational groups, and educational levels in the city-state of Singapore. Over the years, Singapore's female labor-force participation rate has increased... more
This paper traces the employment trends by gender in various industries, occupational groups, and educational levels in the city-state of Singapore. Over the years, Singapore's female labor-force participation rate has increased as a result of rising educational attainment. At ...
An Analysis of Severance Pay Policies in India and Sri Lanka MUKUL G. ASHER PUNDARIK MUKHOPADHAYA 6.1. ... The formal social security systems in the two countries are characterised by dualism and relatively narrow coverage (Karunarathne... more
An Analysis of Severance Pay Policies in India and Sri Lanka MUKUL G. ASHER PUNDARIK MUKHOPADHAYA 6.1. ... The formal social security systems in the two countries are characterised by dualism and relatively narrow coverage (Karunarathne and Goswami, 2002; Asher ...
This paper analyzes the changes in social welfare in Singapore using both cardinal and ordinal measures. Labour Force Survey data published by the Manpower Research and Statistics, Department of the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore are... more
This paper analyzes the changes in social welfare in Singapore using both cardinal and ordinal measures. Labour Force Survey data published by the Manpower Research and Statistics, Department of the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore are used. It is observed with the use of Lorenz ...
The World Income Inequality data base released recently1 provides statistical in-formation on income/expenditure inequalities at both time series and cross country levels. It presents data on changes in income inequality over the period... more
The World Income Inequality data base released recently1 provides statistical in-formation on income/expenditure inequalities at both time series and cross country levels. It presents data on changes in income inequality over the period 19501998 (for some countries it has ...
... Its findings therefore are likely to be more useful from a policy point of view. Page 5. 2 ... Given an income vector, ( , , , xx xn 1 2 L , representing the distribution of income in society, the general form of a social welfare... more
... Its findings therefore are likely to be more useful from a policy point of view. Page 5. 2 ... Given an income vector, ( , , , xx xn 1 2 L , representing the distribution of income in society, the general form of a social welfare function (SWF) of the Bergson-Samuelson type is ...
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998 in recognition of his “several key contributions to the research on fundamental problems in welfare economics”, as noted in the Nobel citation. This paper... more
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998 in recognition of his “several key contributions to the research on fundamental problems in welfare economics”, as noted in the Nobel citation. This paper examines three major areas of economics, which it calls “unfashionable economics”, and in which Sen's contributions have been particularly notable. These areas are
This paper proposes a new method of explaining the temporal change in economic inequality in terms of changes in the sources of income. The method is based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by source of income. Using this... more
This paper proposes a new method of explaining the temporal change in economic inequality in terms of changes in the sources of income. The method is based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by source of income. Using this method, the paper also examines ...
Based on the data on earnings distributions from the national labour force surveys of 1974-98, trends in income inequality are studied. Of particular note are the findings from the Paglin Gini and Theil decompositions. The former show... more
Based on the data on earnings distributions from the national labour force surveys of 1974-98, trends in income inequality are studied. Of particular note are the findings from the Paglin Gini and Theil decompositions. The former show that behind an invariant overall ...
