|
Country
|
Unemployment
|
Total Jobless (1998)
|
Local Jobs Lost Due to Crisis
|
Terminated/ Deported Migrant Workers
|
Other Effects
|
|
1997
|
1998
|
|
Hong Kong
|
2.9%
|
4.0%
(worst in 14 years)
|
133,600
(May 1998)
|
Over 6,000 (Jun 97 to May 98)
|
27,200 foreign domestic helpers (FDH) terminated
(Jul 97 to Mar 98)
|
FDH wage frozen at 1996 levels; employers calling for 20% wage cut
for FDH
|
|
Indonesia
|
14.2%
|
16.0%
|
15.2 million
(1998 forecast)
|
2 million
(Jun to Dec 97)
|
n.a.
|
Poverty incidence rose from 22M (11%) in 1996 to 96M (48%) in end-98;
famine feared in certain areas
|
|
Japan
|
3.4%
|
4.3%
(worst since 1953)
|
2.93 million (May 1998)
|
490,000
(May 97-May 98)
|
-
|
-
|
|
Korea
|
2.6%
|
7.6%
(July 1998; worst since 1966);
government forecast = 6.5%
|
2.0 to 4.5 million (1998 forecast)
|
276,000
(Jun 97 to Jan 98)
|
300,000 deported
(Jun 97 to Jan 98) + 100,000 more to be expelled in 1998
|
-
|
|
Malaysia
|
2.5%
|
3.7%
|
500,000 (1998 forecast)
|
10,000 blue collars laid off (Jun-Dec 97) + 35,469 laid off
(Jan to Jul 98)
|
10,000 deported (Jun 97 to Jan 98) +
3,030 laid off (Jan-May 98); 200,000 to be expelled in 1998
|
-
|
|
Philippines
|
7.9%
|
8.4%
|
4.3 million (April 1998)
|
1.015 million (Apr 97 to Apr 98)
|
n.a.
|
-
|
|
Singapore
|
1.8%
|
-
|
-
|
2,300 laid off (Jun 97-May 98) +
30,000 expected in 1998
|
3,161 undocumented migrants arrested (Jan to Mar 98)
|
Wage freeze proposed
|
|
Thailand
|
3.0%
|
6.0%
|
1.8 million (1998 forecast)
|
200,000 public employees to be axed
|
6,000 Burmese expelled (Jun 97 to Jan 98) +
300,000 to be expelled in 1998
|
-
|