Mohamad Fazli Sabri · Eugene Cheng-Xi Aw · Husniyah Abdul Rahim · Nik Ahmad Sufian Burhan · Mohd Amim Othman · Megawati Simanjuntak ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: G41, G53
This study aims to identify the factors determining financial vulnerability among Malaysia households. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted using multi-stage sampling technique. In total, 578 useable responses were collected and data...
Harn Shian Boo ·Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities ·2021
This article explores how gender norms rooted in culture and religion influence gender inequality among Malay couples in Malaysia. Studies on the unbalanced division of unpaid domestic work are pivotal because they negatively affect women’s...
Muzafar Shah Habibullah · Mohd Yusof Saari · Badariah Haji Din · Sugiharso Safuan · Chakrin Utit ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: H30, I18, J64
In this empirical note, we examine the relationship between the loss of employment and lockdown measures undertaken by the Malaysian government during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak over the period from 25 January 2020 to 10 September 2020....
Ramasamy Thillainathan ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2022 ·JEL: L33, Q48
This paper reviews Malaysia’s experience in privatisation in power generation from the first half of the 1990s and the role it played in promoting Malay entry into business. In the pre-1949 period, privately-owned independent power producer...
Nurita Juhdi · Junaidah Hashim · Rozailin Abdul Rahman ·Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics ·2019
Malaysia is in the midst of embracing the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and is working hard to strengthen the educational sector so that the future human capital possesses high ethical values and morality. Term like internet of things become th...
Suriyani Muhamad · Suhal Kusairi · Nadia Zamri ·Economics and Sociology ·2021 ·JEL: G40, G41, G51, G32, D14, R51
An immense concern of governments globalwide today is financial inclusion as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments arrive at many solutions by addressing the policies to improve financial achievement, mainly through f...
Kean-Siang Chng · Suresh Narayan ·Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy ·2021
The presence of a beauty premium in the labor market has been convincingly demonstrated in developed countries, although studies examining this issue in other countries have been few. Additionally, two related issues remain unclear: (i) Doe...
Muhammad Najit Sukemi · Madeline Berma · Shamsul Amri Baharuddin · Faridah Shahdan ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
Affirmative action is a mechanism of conflict resolution in situation of ethnic tensions and socio-economic imbalances. In Malaysia, affirmative action was implemented through a New Economic Policy (NEP) from 1970 to address economic imbala...
Rusmawati Said · Ng Kar Yee · Normaz Wana Ismail ·Institutions and Economies ·2019 ·JEL: J81; J83; J61; R15
This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour standards on domestic labour standards in ASEAN countries. The study employs a set of cross-sectional time series data that covers the period from 1995-2008 for its empirical analysis. Th...
Mohd Shahidan Shaari · Nor Hidayah Harun · Nor Ermawati Hussain ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
Economic growth plays an important role in determining the number of female labour force. As economic growth intensifes, the number of female labour force increases simultaneously. However, the rise in the number of female labour force can...
Shankaran Nambiar ·The European Journal of Development Research ·2021
The purpose of this paper is to argue that the capability approach can benefit from thinking in institutional economics. If the locus of the capability approach is moved from the individual to groups or communities, then it is imperative th...
Christopher Richardson · Guat-Hoon Tan · Shaian Kiumarsi ·Journal of Asia Business Studies ·2018
Purpose This paper aims to investigate and reflect upon the effects of personality traits on expatriate adjustment within the context of Malaysia’s multicultural society. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the multicultural personality...
Caglar Ozden · Mauro Testaverde · Mathis Wagner ·The World Bank Economic Review ·2018 ·JEL: F22; K42
The perception that immigration fuels crime is an important source of anti-immigrant sentiment. Using Malaysian data for 2003-10, this paper provides estimates of the overall impact of economic immigration on crime, and evidence on differen...
Caroline Theoharides ·Journal of Human Resources ·2018 ·JEL: F22; I25; O15
I estimate the effect of international migration on the human capital of children in the migrants’ origin country. Using administrative data containing all migrant departures from the Philippines, I exploit variation across provinces in des...
Kim-Leng Goh · Nai-peng Tey ·China; cooperation; investment; Malaysia; trade ·2018
Many studies on income disparities in Malaysia tend to use household data, focus on mean income, and ignore the distribution of income. The linkage to some of the characteristics of the individuals has not been examined. Using nationally re...