Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2022
Abstract
Using a panel dataset from a five-wave survey of participants in Singapore’s Work Support Programme (WSP) from 2010 to 2016, we quantify the cumulative negative impact of facing multiple employment barriers and demonstrate the association between the individual stressors and labor market indicators. Using a fixed effects model to reduce the confounding effects of unobservables, we find that a one standard deviation increase in the number of employment barriers brings about a 2.7 to 3.5 percentage point increase in the probability of being unemployed and a 58 SGD to 78 SGD decrease in individual earnings.
Keywords
employment, income, barriers, longitudinal, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Labor Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Publication
Journal of Poverty
Volume
26
Issue
1
First Page
52
Last Page
72
ISSN
1087-5549
Identifier
10.1080/10875549.2021.1890665
Publisher
Routledge
Citation
TAN, Jian Qi; NG, Irene Y. H.; and HO, Kong Weng.
Rethinking the role of employment barriers in active labor market policy: Evidence from a fixed effects analysis. (2022). Journal of Poverty. 26, (1), 52-72.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2519
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2021.1890665