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Chew Seow Lung, Rosalind
Associate Professor
Division of Economics

BSocSci(Hons) Sing. ;MA W.Ont.;PhD NU Singapore

Email: ARCHEW@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: 67904762
Fax: 6795 5797

HSS-04-74
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798

Dr Rosalind Chew is Assistant Chair (Publicity, Alumni and External Relations) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Coordinator of the Economic Growth Centre of the Economics Division.A former graduate of the University of Singapore, Dr Chew obtained her MA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Ph D in Economics from the National University of Singapore. She is author of, inter alia, Workers' Perception of Wage Determination (Times Academic Press, 1990), The Singapore Worker: A Profile (Oxford University Press, 1991), Employment-driven Industrial Relations Regimes: the Singapore Experience (Avebury, 1995), and Wage Policies In Singapore: A Key to Competitiveness (International Labor Organisation, 1996). She was awarded the Singapore Book Prize in 1996. She has also published in Computational Economics and the International Journal of Manpower. A recognised specialist in the areas of Labor Economics and Industrial relations, she has served as consultant to the International Labor Organisation, the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation, National Computer Board and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore). She is also active in public service, and was a Resource Person for the Government Parliamentary Committee for Community Development during 1995-2003 and Expert Consultant to the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) on Skills Training Programme Surveys during 1995-2007.

Research Interests

Wages, wage systems and wage determination in Singapore

Industrial relations in Singapore and other countries

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2009, The Employability Approach to the Protection of Workers' Rights in Singapore, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Number 70, 2009, pp. 405-422.

Chew, Rosalind, 2008, Management of Wage Costs at the Firm Level: The Singapore Perspective, International Employment Relations Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 20-36.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2008, A Study of SMEs in Singapore, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 332-347.

Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2008, Strategic Orientation of the Public Sector Union in Singapore, International Journal of Employment Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 113-140.

Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2007, A Linguistic Minority in Singapore, International Journal of Business and Globalization (United Kingdom), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 451-465.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2005, Pre-emptive Layoffs: A Form of Outsourcing within Singapore, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (Netherlands), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp 77 - 88.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2005, Wage Issues and Human Resources in Singapore, Journal of Comparative Asian Development (United States), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 77 - 103.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Employment Relations in Singapore: From Flexible Wage System to Flexible Employment System?, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. Vol. 3, No. No. 1, pp 53 - 63.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Trade Union Orientation and Macro-Economic Management, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (United States), Vol. 6, No. 3, pp 381 - 403.

L Lkhanyam, Kh. Enkhtsetseg, Rosalind Chew, 2003, Mongolia: policy for growth or innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 303 - 313.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2003, Promoting innovation in Singapore: changing the mindset, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 249 - 266.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2002, Union Membership Recruitment: A Case Study On Singapore, Management Case Quarterly (United Kingdom), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp 54 - 64.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2001, The Cost and Benefits Model of Union Membership, International Employment Relations Review (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 1 - 8.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2001, Evolution of the Wage System in Singapore, International Employment Relations Review (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp 27 - 43.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2001, Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Singapore, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 217 - 229.

L Lkhanyam, Kh. Enkhtsetseg, Rosalind Chew, 2001, The Mongolian Trade Union - a Trade Union Under Transition, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 135 - 146.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2001, Union Membership Trend in Singapore: The Effectiveness of the Innovative Approach in Increasing Membership, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 99 - 109.

Chew, Rosalind, Azlan Bin Ghazali, 1997, The Impact of Gender and Professional Training on the Employment Choice of Singaporean-Chinese Graduates, Asian Economic Journal (Japan), Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 35 - 59.

Chew, Rosalind, 1993, The Measurement of Gender Earnings Differentials for Foreign-Trained and Local-Trained IT Professionals: The Case of Singapore, Computational Economics (Netherlands), No. 6, pp 95 - 106.

Chew, Rosalind, 1992, Information Technology and Women, What's in IT (Singapore), pp 25 - 29.

Books

Chew, Rosalind, Lim Chong Yah, 1998, Wages and Wages Policies Tripartism in Singapore, World Scientific.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1996, Industrial Relations In Singapore Industry, Addison Wesley.

Chew, Rosalind, 1996, Wage Policies In Singapore A Key to Competitiveness, International Labour Organisation.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1995, Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes: The Singapore Experience, Avebury, UK.

Chapter in Books

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2007, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage in Singapore, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage, Serial Publications.

Batchimeg Namsraidorj,, Enkhjargal Adiya , Rosalind Chew, 2007, Indigenous small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Mongolia, International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp 168 - 174.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2007, Globalisation and the emergence of non-traditional employment in Singapore, and prospects, Globalisation and Work in Asia, Woodhead Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, UK.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, International Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Economy in East Asia, The Handbook of Research in International Entrepreneurship, , Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2002, Managing the Singapore Economy, Managing Economic Development in Asia: From Economic Miracle to Financial Crisis , Praeger Publishers, pp 65 - 91.

Chew, Rosalind, 1998, National Wages Council: Themes and Issues, Wages and Wage Policies Tripartism in Singapore, World Scientific.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1998, Human Capital Formation in Singapore, Human Capital Formation as an Engine of Growth: The East Asian Experience, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, .

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1996, Industrial Relations in Singapore: Past Developments and Future Challenges, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Lim Chong Yah, Prentice Hall.

Chew, Rosalind, 1993, Local Chinese Banks in Singapore, Chinese Adaptation and Diversity Essays on Society and Literature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Singapore University Press, pp 58 - 77.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1990, IT as a Strategy for Human Resource Development, Information Technology and Singapore Society: Trends, Policies and Applications , Singapore University Press, pp 87 - 95.

Conference Papers

Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew, 2009, Youth Employment and Training in Singapore, paper presented at the Conference on Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and the Challenge of Youth Employment, 19-21 March 2009, Modena, Italy.

Rosalind Chew and Chew Soon Beng, 2008, Strategic Orientation of the Public Sector Union in Singapore, paper presented at the International Employment Relations Association 16th Annual Conference: Diversity and New Employment Relations, 30 June-2 July 2008, Nigmegen, Netherlands.

Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew, 2008, Workers' Rights Protection: The Case of Singapore, paper presented at the Conference on Rights and Protection in the New World of Work. The reasons for the comparative interdisciplinary study of labour relations, 17-19 March 2008, Modena , Italy.

Chew, Rosalind, 2007, The Political Economy of Trade Unions, paper presented at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2007, 2-4 August, 2007, Singapore.

Chew, Rosalind, 2007, Trade Unions in Pursuit of Long-term Macroeconomic Objectives, paper presented at the 15th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference, 9-12 July, 2007, United Kingdom.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2006, Mitigating the Adverse Impact on Unemployment of Globalisation Through Training and Wage Cost Management, paper presented at the workshop on Economic Restructuring and Industry Development, 23-26 Nov, 2006, Hua Lian, Taiwan, Taiwan.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2006, Labour as a Source of Competitiveness in Selected Southeast Asian Countries, paper presented at the Asia Pacific Economic Association Annual Conference 2006, United States.

Nicholas Groenewold, Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2005, Impact of Training on Earnings, paper presented at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2005, Singapore.

Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2004, Trade Union Orientation and Employment Relations under Globalization: The Case of Singapore, paper presented at the workshop on Regionalism and Globalization: The Challenge for Employment Relations, Australia.

Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Union organising strategies in the new economy, IIRA 13th World Congress: Beyond Traditional Employment - Industrial Relations in the Network Economy, Germany.

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Chew Seow Lung, Rosalind Associate Professor Division of Economics BSocSci(Hons) Sing. ;MA W.Ont.;PhD NU Singapore Email: ARCHEW@ntu.edu.sg Tel: 67904762 Fax: 6795 5797
HSS-04-74 School of Humanities and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798
Dr Rosalind Chew is Assistant Chair (Publicity, Alumni and External Relations) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Coordinator of the Economic Growth Centre of the Economics Division.A former graduate of the University of Singapore, Dr Chew obtained her MA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Ph D in Economics from the National University of Singapore. She is author of, inter alia, Workers' Perception of Wage Determination (Times Academic Press, 1990), The Singapore Worker: A Profile (Oxford University Press, 1991), Employment-driven Industrial Relations Regimes: the Singapore Experience (Avebury, 1995), and Wage Policies In Singapore: A Key to Competitiveness (International Labor Organisation, 1996). She was awarded the Singapore Book Prize in 1996. She has also published in Computational Economics and the International Journal of Manpower. A recognised specialist in the areas of Labor Economics and Industrial relations, she has served as consultant to the International Labor Organisation, the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation, National Computer Board and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore). She is also active in public service, and was a Resource Person for the Government Parliamentary Committee for Community Development during 1995-2003 and Expert Consultant to the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) on Skills Training Programme Surveys during 1995-2007.
Research Interests Wages, wage systems and wage determination in Singapore Industrial relations in Singapore and other countries
Selected Publications Journal Papers Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2009, The Employability Approach to the Protection of Workers' Rights in Singapore, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Number 70, 2009, pp. 405-422. Chew, Rosalind, 2008, Management of Wage Costs at the Firm Level: The Singapore Perspective, International Employment Relations Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 20-36. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2008, A Study of SMEs in Singapore, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 332-347. Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2008, Strategic Orientation of the Public Sector Union in Singapore, International Journal of Employment Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 113-140. Chew Soon Beng, Chew, Rosalind, 2007, A Linguistic Minority in Singapore, International Journal of Business and Globalization (United Kingdom), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 451-465. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2005, Pre-emptive Layoffs: A Form of Outsourcing within Singapore, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (Netherlands), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp 77 - 88. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2005, Wage Issues and Human Resources in Singapore, Journal of Comparative Asian Development (United States), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 77 - 103. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Employment Relations in Singapore: From Flexible Wage System to Flexible Employment System?, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. Vol. 3, No. No. 1, pp 53 - 63. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Trade Union Orientation and Macro-Economic Management, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (United States), Vol. 6, No. 3, pp 381 - 403. L Lkhanyam, Kh. Enkhtsetseg, Rosalind Chew, 2003, Mongolia: policy for growth or innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 303 - 313. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2003, Promoting innovation in Singapore: changing the mindset, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 249 - 266. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2002, Union Membership Recruitment: A Case Study On Singapore, Management Case Quarterly (United Kingdom), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp 54 - 64. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2001, The Cost and Benefits Model of Union Membership, International Employment Relations Review (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 1 - 8. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2001, Evolution of the Wage System in Singapore, International Employment Relations Review (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp 27 - 43. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2001, Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Singapore, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (United Kingdom), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 217 - 229. L Lkhanyam, Kh. Enkhtsetseg, Rosalind Chew, 2001, The Mongolian Trade Union - a Trade Union Under Transition, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 135 - 146. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2001, Union Membership Trend in Singapore: The Effectiveness of the Innovative Approach in Increasing Membership, Employment Relations Record (Australia), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 99 - 109. Chew, Rosalind, Azlan Bin Ghazali, 1997, The Impact of Gender and Professional Training on the Employment Choice of Singaporean-Chinese Graduates, Asian Economic Journal (Japan), Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 35 - 59. Chew, Rosalind, 1993, The Measurement of Gender Earnings Differentials for Foreign-Trained and Local-Trained IT Professionals: The Case of Singapore, Computational Economics (Netherlands), No. 6, pp 95 - 106. Chew, Rosalind, 1992, Information Technology and Women, What's in IT (Singapore), pp 25 - 29. Books Chew, Rosalind, Lim Chong Yah, 1998, Wages and Wages Policies Tripartism in Singapore, World Scientific. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1996, Industrial Relations In Singapore Industry, Addison Wesley. Chew, Rosalind, 1996, Wage Policies In Singapore A Key to Competitiveness, International Labour Organisation. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1995, Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes: The Singapore Experience, Avebury, UK. Chapter in Books Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2007, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage in Singapore, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage, Serial Publications. Batchimeg Namsraidorj,, Enkhjargal Adiya , Rosalind Chew, 2007, Indigenous small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Mongolia, International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp 168 - 174. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2007, Globalisation and the emergence of non-traditional employment in Singapore, and prospects, Globalisation and Work in Asia, Woodhead Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, UK. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, International Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Economy in East Asia, The Handbook of Research in International Entrepreneurship, , Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2002, Managing the Singapore Economy, Managing Economic Development in Asia: From Economic Miracle to Financial Crisis , Praeger Publishers, pp 65 - 91. Chew, Rosalind, 1998, National Wages Council: Themes and Issues, Wages and Wage Policies Tripartism in Singapore, World Scientific. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1998, Human Capital Formation in Singapore, Human Capital Formation as an Engine of Growth: The East Asian Experience, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, . Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1996, Industrial Relations in Singapore: Past Developments and Future Challenges, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Lim Chong Yah, Prentice Hall. Chew, Rosalind, 1993, Local Chinese Banks in Singapore, Chinese Adaptation and Diversity Essays on Society and Literature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Singapore University Press, pp 58 - 77. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 1990, IT as a Strategy for Human Resource Development, Information Technology and Singapore Society: Trends, Policies and Applications , Singapore University Press, pp 87 - 95. Conference Papers Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew, 2009, Youth Employment and Training in Singapore, paper presented at the Conference on Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and the Challenge of Youth Employment, 19-21 March 2009, Modena, Italy. Rosalind Chew and Chew Soon Beng, 2008, Strategic Orientation of the Public Sector Union in Singapore, paper presented at the International Employment Relations Association 16th Annual Conference: Diversity and New Employment Relations, 30 June-2 July 2008, Nigmegen, Netherlands. Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew, 2008, Workers' Rights Protection: The Case of Singapore, paper presented at the Conference on Rights and Protection in the New World of Work. The reasons for the comparative interdisciplinary study of labour relations, 17-19 March 2008, Modena , Italy. Chew, Rosalind, 2007, The Political Economy of Trade Unions, paper presented at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2007, 2-4 August, 2007, Singapore. Chew, Rosalind, 2007, Trade Unions in Pursuit of Long-term Macroeconomic Objectives, paper presented at the 15th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference, 9-12 July, 2007, United Kingdom. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2006, Mitigating the Adverse Impact on Unemployment of Globalisation Through Training and Wage Cost Management, paper presented at the workshop on Economic Restructuring and Industry Development, 23-26 Nov, 2006, Hua Lian, Taiwan, Taiwan. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2006, Labour as a Source of Competitiveness in Selected Southeast Asian Countries, paper presented at the Asia Pacific Economic Association Annual Conference 2006, United States. Nicholas Groenewold, Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2005, Impact of Training on Earnings, paper presented at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2005, Singapore. Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew, 2004, Trade Union Orientation and Employment Relations under Globalization: The Case of Singapore, paper presented at the workshop on Regionalism and Globalization: The Challenge for Employment Relations, Australia. Chew, Rosalind, Chew Soon Beng, 2003, Union organising strategies in the new economy, IIRA 13th World Congress: Beyond Traditional Employment - Industrial Relations in the Network Economy, Germany.