Singapore, Jan. 24 -- The employment rate of Singapore citizens has risen over the past decade, as has the share of pro-fessionals, managers, executives and technicians among working Singaporeans.
Their median real income grew faster compared with the total resident workforce - which includes permanent residents (PRs) - while citizen unemployment stayed low.
The occasional paper released by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) yesterday also noted that as Singapore citizens consistently make up about 85 per cent of the resident labour force, their trends track closely to those of resident data.
Unemployment rate for Singapore citizens stood at 3.2 per cent last June, slightly higher than the 3.1 per cent for all residents. But this was to be e...