...Business, Government and Society | Singapore, A Nation of Immigrants | | | CONTENTS Introduction 3 - 5 1.1 Background 3 - 4 1.2 Identification of Issues 4 - 5 1.3 Current Situation 5 Stakeholder Analysis 6 - 7 Why are Foreigners Needed in Singapore? 8 - 10 3.1 Government Perspective 8 - 9 3.1.1An Ethical Perspective 9 - 10 3.2 Businesses’ Perspective 10 The Need to Address the Issue 10 Existing Government Actions 11 - 13 * 5.1 Implementations 11 5.2 Approach in Issue Management Through Implementations 12 - 13 5.3 Analysis of Government Policies 13 Recommendations 14 - 17 * 6.1 Government’s Perspective 14 - 15 6.2 Businesses’ Perspective15 - 16 6.3 Society’s Perspective 17 Conclusion 18 References 19 - 20 Appendices Appendix A: Compiled comments from citizens regarding their concerns on foreigners 1. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Background Singapore’s long history of immigration started from the 2nd century AD when the first settlers arrived on the island. Since then, the country has grown and is now a melting pot of approximately 5 million people made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Asians of various descents, and Caucasians. As shown in Figure 1, the number of foreigners working and studying in Singapore makes up roughly 37% of the entire population in 2010. (Singapore Department of Statistics, 2010) In August 2001, then PM Goh Chock Tong urged Singaporeans to accept the increasing number of foreigners in the city...
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...debate in recent years. The inflow of immigrants may bring a positive effect or negative effect to the destined country. However, in some countries like the United States, their economic development has become dependent on immigrants. As Marco Rubio once said, “Americans believe in the value of immigrationâ€. Immigration has made and is making favorable contribution in term of economy to the host country. Immigrants have benefited the U.S economy by filling in less-skilled job vacancies, increasing native’s wages and labor productivity, and lastly driving innovation. Immigrant Workers Fill the Growing Number of Job Vacancies Immigration plays an important role in filling in the less-skilled jobs vacancies in United States. The main reason why the United States has become significantly reliant on immigrants is because of the growing shortage of workers that are willing to do the less-skilled jobs. In recent years, American worker’s educational level has improved dramatically, thus result in the growing number of less-skilled jobs in which U.S-born workers are available. Less-skilled immigrants are needed to fill in occupations such as construction, farming, fishing, food processing, food preparation and service, building maintenance, landscaping, and many more. Research by Madeline Zavodny and Tamar Jacoby shows that based on the average O*NET score, a database that measures the attributes of every U.S occupation, 13% more immigrants spend more time climbing ladder and...
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...Another point to make on high-skilled immigrants creating jobs for others is that the percentage of businesses started by these immigrants is large. When immigrants start up their own business, they directly create jobs for people. If the business starts off well, it could potentially expand and create even more jobs. If the business flourishes, it could help the economy drastically. Sarah Doolin Roy at research.newamericaneconomy.org, gives statistics on immigration entrepreneurship. One of them states that the U.S. has more than 2.9 million immigrant entrepreneurs who produced $65.5 billion in business income in 2014 alone. With large amounts of money being made by them, they contribute substantially to the U.S. economy. Although the number...
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...the economy. With a country changing its primary industry to advanced technology and less low skilled manufacturing the ratio of immigrant coming into the country should mirror that demand. With 11 million illegal unskilled laborers living in this country and still growing something has to change. Even though politicians are unable to agree on the correct approach to fixing the immigration problems Immigration laws need to be changed. Over the years there have been many changes in immigration laws but many of them failed. For example in 2005 the real identification (ID) act was mandating that all states would be required to enforce requirements for state-issued drivers’ licenses. In 2006 many of the states started looking into the cost associated with the new real ID act. Many states were not happy with the cost associated with the new act and did not want to enforce it. On, “September 21, 2006, the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators released a report that judged the cost to the states of implementing REAL ID to be more than $11 billion over five years.” (Stock, 2007). As the states began to implement the new lice sensing rules legal immigrants started to have difficulty in obtaining new or renewed licenses. In New Hampshire a class action was filled by immigrants. The immigrants won the class action against the Department of Motor vehicles Another was the US Visitor system...
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...There's a very large population of illegal/ undocumented immigrants in the U.S today and it has upset some and others think it's a good thing. As you look into how many immigrants are behind the scenes of making your food or why there’s always an option for Spanish dialogue or why presidential candidate Trump says they bring in rapist and murderers, what does immigration actually mean to the nation. To what extent is illegal immigration a burden or a benefit to the U.S. economy? If it's a benefit who does immigration actually burden? Immigrants have throughout the history of America been very well welcomed, but this recent spurt of illegal immigrants have been largely controversial to the nation. The information i found proved that these illegal...
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...1 History 4.2 Policy 4.3 Federal Skilled Worker Program 4.4 Temporary Foreign Worker Program 4.0 Policy Outcomes 5.5 Labour Supply 5.6 Keynesian Theory – Aggregate Supply and Demand 5.7 Demands for Goods and Service 5.8 ADI/IA – Aggregate Demand and Inflation 5.9 Aggregate Supply 5.10 Multiplier effect 5.11 Money market 5.12 Short Term/Long Term Immigration Impacts on GDP 5.0 Policy Recommendations 1.0 Executive Summary The World Bank (2014) identifies Canada as having the 11th largest economy in the world with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $1.82 trillion in 2013 with a population of 35 million (Canada 2013). Immigration has been a crucial element of the development and generation of revenue for the country. Skilled workers play a vital role in the growth of the Canadian economy and range from general skilled workers, professionals as well as business immigrants and foreign investors. There is evidence demonstrating that immigrants do experience some challenges assimilating and this does cause some fiscal burden as more social support is required. Delays integrating into the social system impact numerous social resources and prolong the ability to generate a contributing income to the GDP. The economic entry immigration policy consists of two component including the skilled worker and temporary foreign worker. Although the...
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...debate in recent years. The inflow of immigrants may bring a positive effect or negative effect to the destined country. However, in some countries like the United States, their economic development has become dependent on immigrants. As Marco Rubio once said, “Americans believe in the value of immigration”. Immigration has made and is making favorable contribution in term of economy to the host country. Immigrants have benefited the U.S economy by filling in less-skilled job vacancies, increasing native’s wages and labor productivity, and lastly driving innovation. Immigrant Workers Fill the Growing Number of Job Vacancies Immigration plays an important role in filling in the less-skilled jobs vacancies in United States. The main reason why the United States has become significantly reliant on immigrants is because of the growing shortage of workers that are willing to do the less-skilled jobs. In recent years, American worker’s educational level has improved dramatically, thus result in the growing number of less-skilled jobs in which U.S-born workers are available. Less-skilled immigrants are needed to fill in occupations such as construction, farming, fishing, food processing, food preparation and service, building maintenance, landscaping, and many more. Research by Madeline Zavodny and Tamar Jacoby shows that based on the average O*NET score, a database that measures the attributes of every U.S occupation, 13% more immigrants spend more time climbing ladder and working...
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...Immigrants make up a considerable proportion of the Canadian population. At the time of the 1991 Census, there were 4.3 million immigrants living in Canada, which is 16% of the total Canadian population. (See Graph 1, Immigrants as a Percentage of Canada's Population, 1901-1996) Over the past decades the level of immigration in Canada has increased from an average of 137 000 immigrants arriving in Canada in the 1960s to an average of about 200 000 in 1998. (See Table1, Annual Immigration Plan 1998) The largest share of immigrants admitted into Canada are in the economic class, in 1994, close to half of the new immigrants coming to Canada were economic class immigrants. Immigration is needed to maintain the Canadian population; "Canada will be an aging society with such a low birth rate that it will soon be unable to sustain its population without sustained immigration." Immigrants are a source of labour to the Canadian economy; immigrants are as likely as people born in Canada to be employed, and many are skilled workers that the Canadian economy is in need of. Business class, investor and entrepreneur immigrant help to provide job opportunities in the economy, and also generate more economic activities and income for the Canadian economy. "Analysis of data from the household/family file of the 1981 Canadian Census of Population reveals that, regardless of origin, immigrants benefit the Canadian-born population through the public treasury." Immigrants are an aid to the Canadian...
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...workforce are immigrants that has contribute one way or the other to the economy of the country. Though there are problem with the boarders which I think can be solved by other ways. The Trump method of deportation, I really don't think is a option to solve the illegal immigrants issue, my point is when we look more at the economic cost and really that boss at the labor market it, he said everyone has to go and when we look at it, if everyone has to go that will cost America 8 million workers and that a significant amount that's 5.2 per of our labor market will be affect. Deporting the immigrant is not going to cut cost rather is going to cause harm...
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...It also provides for you financially and provides a better life those receiving plentiful amounts. For immigrants coming into America, having an education puts you ahead of a majority of the immigrant population and makes you a more likely candidate for better earning jobs. Education should influence immigration policy because of the overall benefits our country receives. With more educated immigrants comes more job competition, skilled workers from low-productivity countries to high-productivity nations increases the incomes of people in America, and education is a needed expense because educating younger immigrants...
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...undocumented immigrants. The RAISE Act that he has proposed will end the diversity visa program,reduce the amount of family sponsored immigrants and reduce the number of refugees being accepted into America. This is supposed to limit the amount of people immigrating to the U.S. The new act is very similar to what other past acts have tried to accomplish and have never succeeded. It is completely unreasonable. Immigration is a natural right. Millions of people try to immigrate to America in order to have a better life. Whether it is about opportunities, escaping war/ danger/ natural disaster and so on, they all seek the American dream. A pure example would be refugees. The RAISE Act wants to limit the...
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...workforce. Low skill jobs essential to our economy are now going unfilled by US citizens. But that does not mean that these jobs are not being taken. Rather, illegal immigrants now hold many low skill labor jobs, as they are abandoned by both citizens and legal immigrants alike. As much debate as there is surrounding illegal immigrants, they are becoming increasingly important to our economy. Illegal immigrants affect our economy in both positive and negative ways, but they are essential to our economy now and in the future. Unexpected Positives...
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...labour demand and a shortages caused by shrinking German working-age population. However, international recruitment is difficult process. Restrictions still prevent the employment of most skilled workers, even if there is a labour shortage. In Germany there are three types of immigrants: EU-immigrants, non-EU and students. Skilled workers The biggest shortage in German labour market is skilled workers. The market is showing shortages in different occupations. For example, there are not enough engineers, IT specialist, mathematicians or specialists in natural science. Scarcity is expected to reach 5.4 million by 2025 (federal Employment Agency, 2011 a ) . Immigrants should fill out this labour deficit. There are two kinds of immigrants- EU and non-EU immigrants. The most of high-skilled immigrants come from non-EU countries. In 2011 most of them were from India, United States, Japan, China. Regulations are different for both, but for latter much stricter. Regulations EU immigrants Citizens from European Economic Area ( EU plus Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein) and Switzerland are allowed to live and work in Germany freely. The only requirement is to register your living place. The only exception is for Bulgaria and Romania citizens, they have to get a living/working permit. Non- EU immigrants Regulations for non-EU citizens are much harder. First, they have to get a visa. Then residence/working permit. In order to get these documents they have to know their living place in...
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...Many think that immigrants coming to America are taking many jobs away from who need them. Some also think that there are jobs being taken away are not ones that Americans would not perform due to the horrible working conditions, low pay, and lack of important medical coverage. They are not necessarily taking jobs away from the hard American worker but the ones that no one wants. The working occupations that immigrants usually take are illegal for any legal (licensed) employer to employ any worker. The typical job sites that would be including but not limited to: unsanitary working conditions, dangerous equipment without proper safety precautions, extremely long days and less...
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...unskilled or low-skilled workers, US policy must adapt so that it can better maximize the net economic benefits of immigration. While this probably does not include a universal drop in the number of legal immigrants, it would include the screening of applicants in such a way that preference is given to more economically beneficial candidates. It would also include making families totally responsible for their elderly relatives who migrate to the US, eliminating the refugee portion of immigrants, denying more, but not all, government services to illegal immigrants, controlling the southern border with more manpower and better technology, and establishing a national verification database. The optimal policy from an economic perspective should seek to provide U.S. businesses with the labor they require without placing added burden on the taxpayers. Before specific policies can be addressed, it is crucial that immigrants be separated into four categories: legal, working-age immigrants; legal, elderly immigrants; refugees; and illegal immigrants. These groups are radically different, and they must be addressed differently. Universally cutting legal immigration levels would deprive businesses of labor resources that have allowed them to grow. Businesses benefit greatly in terms of increased labor availability. Immigrants usually have a higher percentage of college degrees than people now living in this country, and thus they contribute greatly to the filling of higher-skilled jobs. George...
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