title: Transience and settlement: Singapore's foreign labor policy.
abstract: "Foreigners constitute 15 percent of the population and over 20 percent of the labor force in Singapore.... This large foreign labor force is managed by a comprehensive and highly selective foreign labor policy, which is described in this paper. The strict enforcement of a guestworker policy of transience on the one hand, and the liberal encouragement of settlement on the other, are the twin pillars of this policy. Seen originally as a dispensable appendage to a labor-scarce economy, foreign labor has now become integral to the economic and increasingly, population policy of the country, as evidenced by the recent announcement of a national policy to ¿attract foreign talent'."
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D006280:Health Workforce; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012846:Singapore; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Foreigners; Human Resources; Immigrants; Incentives; Labor Force; Migrant Workers; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; Nationality; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Singapore; Social Policy; Southeastern Asia