2009
DOI: 10.5539/ijef.v1n1p86
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Globalization of the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Agenda for Social Protection Enhancement

Abstract: Globalization offers opportunities for workers to achieve higher levels of economic prosperity. Unfortunately, it also causes job insecurity for specific groups in certain sectors. This is particularly so in the Malaysian manufacturing sector which is actively fragmenting its production structure. There are prior concerns that some workers in certain labour-intensive segments of the production process will be displaced. The issue is whether the country's current social protection systems are adequate to protec… Show more

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“…Globalization offers opportunities for workers to achieve higher levels of economic prosperity (Devadason & Meng, 2009), where globalization helps to accelerate accumulation of physical and sustained technological transfer. With globalization, workers in all countries are compelled to compete with each other for jobs via increasing their efficiency and productivity to meet the international standards of the global labor markets.…”
Section: Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Globalization offers opportunities for workers to achieve higher levels of economic prosperity (Devadason & Meng, 2009), where globalization helps to accelerate accumulation of physical and sustained technological transfer. With globalization, workers in all countries are compelled to compete with each other for jobs via increasing their efficiency and productivity to meet the international standards of the global labor markets.…”
Section: Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%