Fong, Pang Eng; Pew, Ong Nai - In: Philippine Review of Economics 25 (1988) 1&2, pp. 71-99
Based on census data, this paper traces the labour absorption pattern in the city-economies of Hong Kong and Singapore since the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Among the similarities highlighted are the export-led growth in the 1970s, the shift towards higher valued activities, the simultaneous...