Singapore: Selected Issues

Author: International Monetary Fund

Volume/Issue: Volume 2006 Issue 151

Publication date: May 2006

ISBN: 9781451834253

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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Industries - Manufacturing , Service , Demography , ISCR , CR , Singapore economy , investment , saving , labor market uncertainty , saving-investment balance , investment rate , P-AC markup , products industry , Labor markets , Private consumption , Income , Unemployment rate , Consumption , Asia and Pacific , Global

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the behavior of savings and investment from an Asian and Singaporean perspective. It builds and estimates two econometric models that relate savings and investment to a range of macroeconomic and structural variables. The paper examines the relationship between labor market developments and private consumption behavior, and notes that employment uncertainty did have a significant negative impact on consumption and raised precautionary savings. It also examines quantitative, industry-level measures of the intensity of domestic competition in the manufacturing and services sectors during the past two decades in Singapore.