Rate of Re-entry Into Employment for Retrenched Residents (Six Months Post-Retrenchment), Annual
Ministry of Manpower (MOM) annual indicator of how quickly retrenched Singapore residents return to employment six months after layoff. The series documents methodology shifts from private-sector-only coverage before 2007 through public sector and term-contract redundancies from 2010. Labour economists studying retrenchment recovery and job-matching use these cohort-specific rates alongside other MOM labour market releases. Official notes caution that self-employment, informal work, and training while job-seeking are not captured in administrative records.
Official description
Annual re-entry rate measures the proportion of residents who are in employment in the reference year, six months after retrenchment. Before 2007, data refer to the proportion of residents on permanent employment who were retrenched by private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees) and re-entered employment six months after retrenchment. From 2007 onwards, data also include the proportion of residents retrenched by the public sector. From 2010, the coverage is further expanded to include residents on term contracts who were terminated prematurely because of redundancy. It should be noted that data on re-entry into employment are cohort-specific. Two different cohorts of workers laid off could yield a different re-entry rate depending on the profile of the workers involved. Also, the data based on administrative records do not capture workers who enter into self or informal employment or undergo training while looking for job.
- Published by
- Ministry of Manpower
- Update frequency
- annual
- Datasets
- 0