The objectives of this study are to constructs the wage-productivity gap and its threshold effect on unemployment in emerging economies. The analysis involved the cross-section threshold regression method among 47 emerging economies from 2016 to 2018, where the Total Factor Productivity (TFP)/productivity is derived using the DEA Malmquist Productivity IndexContinue Reading
This paper presents an analysis of the trend and patterns of the share of labour in GDP, the gap between wage and productivity, and inequality with a focus on Asia-Pacific countries for the period between 2004 and 2017. Descriptive analysis confirms a downward trend in labour income shares during theContinue Reading
Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh pusingan kerja terhadap tempoh kenaikan pangkat dan kadar upah. Data yang digunakan dalam kajian ini diperoleh daripada Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia bagi tahun 2017 yang melibatkan 1686 pegawai terdiri daripada pelbagai pangkat. Kajian ini menggunakan regresi upah Mincer dan dapatan menunjukkan pusingan kerja yangContinue Reading
This paper studies the extent of vulnerable worker impacts in Malaysian labor market. Spesifically, this study analyzes wage differential between vulnerable workers and non-vulnerable workers by testing wage hedonic theory. Data is obtained through a survey to 1705 workers in private sectors. Based on OLS regression result, vulnerable worker’s coefficientContinue Reading
The objective of this study is to investigate the demand for foreign workers in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia. In order to achieve this objective, the simultaneous equation model is developed and the analyses are based on data from the Industrial Survey conducted by the Department of Statistics Malaysia forContinue Reading
This paper estimates the ethnic economic gap in Malaysia before the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1970 and after the end of the NEP in 1986. Specifically, this paper uses the Duncan Dissimilarity Index to estimate occupation segregation between ethnic Malays and the ethnic Chinese; ethnic Malays and ethnic Indians;Continue Reading
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