The real problem about low wages in Singapore

Singapore doesn't just have a low-wage worker problem. It has a systemic problem of persistently low wages in many domestic services sectors, some economists say. If so, we need to talk differently about wages, and now.

Associate Editor

Updated

Published

Aug 20, 2021, 05:00 AM

The issue of low-wage workers and how to raise wages for this group of workers has gained nationwide attention - and sympathy - in recent years.

The issue is twofold.

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