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Commentary: Help our 'graduate poor' break out of the underemployment trap
A recent survey revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates. NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Zainal Sapari discusses its implications.
File photo of graduates.
By Zainal Sapari
10 Apr 2018 12:56PM (Updated: 10 Apr 2018 01:00PM)
SINGAPORE: Degree? Check.
Skills? Check.
A proper job to match their qualifications? Unfortunately, not.
A recent survey conducted by the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, in partnership with Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute and presented to the Labour Research Conference in 2017, revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates.
The survey – one of the first of its kind – revealed that a small group of graduates had fallen into involuntary underemployment (in other words, not by choice but by circumstances beyond their control) where despite working full-time, they earn less than S$2,000 per month. These are the “graduate poor” and it is a black swan in our labour landscape.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...or-break-out-of-underemployment-trap-10122674
Commentary: Help our 'graduate poor' break out of the underemployment trap
A recent survey revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates. NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Zainal Sapari discusses its implications.
File photo of graduates.
By Zainal Sapari
10 Apr 2018 12:56PM (Updated: 10 Apr 2018 01:00PM)
SINGAPORE: Degree? Check.
Skills? Check.
A proper job to match their qualifications? Unfortunately, not.
A recent survey conducted by the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, in partnership with Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute and presented to the Labour Research Conference in 2017, revealed worrying statistics of seriously underemployed Singaporean graduates.
The survey – one of the first of its kind – revealed that a small group of graduates had fallen into involuntary underemployment (in other words, not by choice but by circumstances beyond their control) where despite working full-time, they earn less than S$2,000 per month. These are the “graduate poor” and it is a black swan in our labour landscape.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...or-break-out-of-underemployment-trap-10122674
