主 题：Immigration and Labour Market Challenges in Singapore
主讲人：Hui Weng Tat
纳扎尔巴耶夫大学公共政策研究生院院长
主持人：蒙克
294俄罗斯专享会助理教授
时 间：12月12日（星期一）14:00-16:00
地 点：294俄罗斯专享会302会议室
语 言：英语
讲座简介：
The economic success of the small open Singapore economy in the past four decades is well known. It has earned a global reputation for its effective government machinery, extensive public housing, efficient institutions and disciplined workforce. Singapore is now at a critical juncture in its economic development path. In recent years, infrastructural and space constraints have raised questions on its future growth prospects. The existing presence of large numbers of low-wage foreign workers has also surfaced concerns over its contribution to the rise in income inequality. Increased competition for jobs from foreign graduates has led to calls for further curbs on foreign labour inflow. This presentation examines the main drivers of Singapore’s economic growth in the past decades and the prospects and challenges for its future growth. The policy responses to inclusive growth and the implications on productivity of recent policies and developments will also be discussed.
主讲人简介：
Hui Weng Tat specializes in the impact of globalisation on labour markets, economic issues of migration, education, ageing and retirement, and labour market policies in Singapore. He has taught in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) before joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) at NUS in 2004. He has published in international labour and public economics journals and acted as a consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Manpower, the International Labour Organization, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and held the concurrent position of Associate Research Fellow of the then Singapore Institute of Labour Studies from 1991–1994.
He has served as a resource person to the Singapore National Wages Council and was a member of the Economic Review Sub-Committee Workgroup on Wages, the Institute of Policy Studies Economic Restructuring Working Group and the Economic Strategies Committee Workgroup on Workforce Skills and Low Wage Workers. He held various administrative appointments at NUS which include Deputy Director of the Public Policy Programme (1997–1998), Deputy and Acting Head of the Department of Economics (1998–2000), Vice Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2000–2003) and Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) of the LKY School (2004–2008). In late 2015, he took leave from NUS to assume the position of Dean at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.
