The Impact of Foreign Labour on the Unskilled Labour Demand in Malaysia

Abdullah, Hussin; Azam, Muhammad; Abdullah, Muhammad Zakir

doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1p264

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“…Abdullah et al (2016) used the ARDL approach to examine the cointegration between environmental quality and socio-economic factor for national health expenditure in Malaysia. They indicated that sulphur dioxide, fertility and infant mortality rate showed a significant factor in the country’s health expenditures.…”

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Does Health Care Utilisation Reduce Child Mortality? An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

KONCA

2024

Journal of Health Management

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The child mortality rate is an important indicator presenting crucial information about the health status of a country. In the current study, we examined whether health care utilisation reduced the under-5 mortality rates, an important health status indicator, in Turkey. We employed an autoregressive distributed lag bounds test. We used doctor consultation and health expenditure as the independent variables. We found out that both doctor consultation and health expenditure had negative impacts on the under-5 mortality rates in the short run; however, the effects of both variables were not statistically significant ( p > .05). Also, we showed that while the effect of doctor consultation on the under-5 mortality rates was negatively and statistically significant ( p < .05) in the long run, the effect of health expenditure was not statistically significant ( p > .05). Turkey should allocate more to health care services specifically targeting infant and child health to reduce its infant and child mortality rates.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Does Health Care Utilisation Reduce Child Mortality? An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

KONCA

2024

Journal of Health Management

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“…However, health expenditure has a limited impact if levels of environmental degradation increase. Similarly, Abdullah et al (2016) used the ARDL method based on the Malaysian data from the period 1970-2014. They carried out a cointegration analysis using the variables of health expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions.…”

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The Link between Economic Growth, Air Pollution and Health Expenditure in the G7 Countries

Zeiri,

Bouzir,

Mbarek

et al. 2023

IJEEP

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The objective of this paper is to study the effect of economic growth and pollution on health expenditure in G7 countries, during the 1990-2020. In order to obtain a reliable estimate, we adopt the partial least squares (PLS) regression method, which focuses on three explanatory indicators (GDP, CO2, MR) and health expenditure (HE), as a dependent variable. The obtained empirical results reveal several important elements. First, all the models are significant, with the exception of Canada. Then, all countries have verified the economic theory that GDP positively affects HE. Then, we observe negative effects of CO2 emissions on HE, except in Japan. Finally, France, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom have negative effects of MR on HE.

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“…Board, Malaysia (2017) This circumstance has forced the employer to hire low skilled foreign workers. Abdullah (2015) claimed that, foreign workers are willing to work in any conditions and accept small wages. This view also concurs with Abdul-Aziz ( 2001) that the utilization of foreign workers by construction companies in Malaysia because of willing to work extra hours, obedient, willing to receive low wages and flexible and mobile.…”

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“…As a result, the employers would hire unskilled foreign workers to execute all the works on site. Numerous studies conducted have demonstrated that there was a shortage of local skilled workers to meet the industry demands as reported by (Jamil and Yusof, 2011;Abdullah et al, 2015;Mohamed, 2015;Majid et al, 2015;Hussien, 2016;Mohd Rahim et al, 2016). In addition to that, Abdul Hamid (2013) found that the composition of labour in one construction project were 82.77% of the workers are foreign labours mostly from Indonesia and only 17.23% were local labours which is less than one fifth of the total number of labours in the construction project.…”

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Preliminary Survey on Availability of Local Skilled Construction Workers at Construction Sites

Salleh¹,

Lop²,

Mamter³

et al. 2020

IJARBSS

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A scenario of the Malaysian construction industry is moving towards the realisation of industrial revolution agenda 4.0. Thus, new technologies have been introduced to support the industry. However, specific tasks still required labours to perform the work. The use of labour is a primary factor in the production of a building. Nevertheless, the difficulties to employ local skilled workers to meet the industry demand is significance. Although there are many Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions that produce graduates in the field of construction related course, nonetheless, some of them are reluctant to join the construction sector because of the 3D's (dirty, dangerous and difficult) environment of the industry. Consequently, most of the employer tend to hire unskilled foreign workers in their projects. This shortage of local labour has become one of the factors that affect the development of this country. Thus, it is vital to identify the number of local skilled construction workers available at construction sites and to determine the current labour issues at construction sites. The semi-structured interview has been conducted with the site supervisors at five random construction sites. The data was analysed using a qualitative software (i.e Atlas.ti@8).Four issues that are related to hiring of local skilled labour in construction project; as local labours request for higher wages, demand to work at the supervisory level, incompliance with industry regulations and the employers' expectation of high skills and experience from the labour. The outcomes of this paper can serve as a foundation for the construction stakeholders in addressing the problems of labour shortage in Malaysia.

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The Impact of Foreign Labour on the Unskilled Labour Demand in Malaysia

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Does Health Care Utilisation Reduce Child Mortality? An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

Does Health Care Utilisation Reduce Child Mortality? An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

The Link between Economic Growth, Air Pollution and Health Expenditure in the G7 Countries

Preliminary Survey on Availability of Local Skilled Construction Workers at Construction Sites

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