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Human Resources, Labour Markets and Unemployment: The Impact of the SARS Epidemic on the Service Sector in Singapore

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  • Grace O. M. Lee
  • Malcolm Warner

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This study examines the links between epidemics and their economic and human resources consequences in a contemporary setting, specifically in terms of their impacts on human resources, labour-markets and jobs. To exemplify the above, we looked at SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) a phenomenon we have previously investigated in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong, vis-à-vis its impact on the Singapore economy, its human resources, labour-market and its level of employment and unemployment. We hypothesized that the greatest impact would be on human resource management (HRM) in the service-sector and on particular sub-sectors, such as the hotel industry. It concludes that the demand and supply ‘shocks’ investigated affected both the demand for and the supply of labour in the sector, with observable HRM consequences for hotel employment (as in the case of both mainland China and Hong Kong, although each being on their different respective scales, with one large and one small in population base). The Singapore outcome was, however, to prove closer to the Hong Kong experience, than to the Chinese case.

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  • Grace O. M. Lee & Malcolm Warner, 2006. "Human Resources, Labour Markets and Unemployment: The Impact of the SARS Epidemic on the Service Sector in Singapore," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(4), pages 507-527, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:12:y:2006:i:4:p:507-527
    DOI: 10.1080/13602380600571443
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