How the 1978 Foreign Domestic Workers Law Increased Labour Supply of Singaporean Women
Singapore Economic Review (Forthcoming)
25 Pages Posted: 19 Feb 2013 Last revised: 1 Oct 2014
Date Written: August 23, 2013
Abstract
In 1978, Singapore was the rst country to introduce legislation allowing foreign domestic workers (e.g. maids) to work in the country with special visas. Though Singapore is often cited in the literature as a success story, there are no studies quantifying the impact of this legislation. In this paper, we use data from Singapore's Yearbook of Manpower Statistics between 1974 and 1985, to determine the impact of the 1978 legislation on the labour supply of Singaporean women. We nd that the labour supply of women aected by this policy increased by between 3.8% and 6.2%.
Keywords: Gender, Labour Supply, Quasi-Natural Experiment, Singapore
JEL Classification: J16, J21, J61
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