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Going GREY for starters

January 14, 2008 in People | by Cheryl Tan | Leave a comment

GOING GREY FOR STARTERS

An Interview with Angelique Chan

By
Mamta Sachan Kumar &
Cheryl Tan Shiling

We inaugurate Bibliotheque (renamed as People), a spanking new section for the Sociology blog Singapore – to be filled with lively reports of in-person interviews with substantial somebodies – with a prestigiously befitting conversation had with our very own, Associate Professor Angelique Chan.

Prof. Chan discusses with us the paper she presented on the 18th of October, at the Singapore Economic Policy Conference 2007, organized by SCAPE – Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics. Entitled, “Fertility, Migration, and Labour Market Trends and Issues in Singapore”, the paper involves two projects, one on ageing in Singapore (on which a book of the same name was recently published)*, and the other a collaborated effort with Associate Professor Paulin Straughan on fertility.

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