Comments on: Is Singapore’s high GINI a reason for it’s low Total Fertility Rate?

By: Seeing Like the State: TFR and Replacement Migration « Singapore Armchair Critic

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:10:03 +0000

[...] have attributed the want of babies to many factors: high housing prices, high population density, wide income gap, a stressful life, high cost of raising a child and inadequate financial incentives, women’s [...]

By: Daily SG: 21 May 2012 « The Singapore Daily

Daily SG: 21 May 2012 « The Singapore Daily — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:33:17 +0000

[...] Truth: What Singapore can learn from Europe By Tommy Koh – Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations: Is Singapore’s high GINI a reason for it’s low Total Fertility Rate? – VR-Zone Forums: 9VARZ’s response to Prof Tommy Koh [Thanks [...]

By: Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:25:25 +0000

True! How to have more children if more Singaporeans are single? But I guess another reason is imbalanced work life, Singaporeans worked very hard and many do not have time to find partners or date, yet we are still continuosly pressured to increase productivity. If we are working from 9am-8pm daily and have already used the latest technology available in the company to complete our work, how else to increase our productivity if not by further extending our working hours? If we are working so hard everyday Mon-Fri, where will we have the energy to socialise on the weekends? Yes, we can go to dating agencies to find a partner but that is only the first step, more time is needed to build and nurture a relationship. Maybe someone can create a chart to show the correlation between length of working hours and marital status by comparing those same countries above?