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Skill-biased export growth: accounting for the changes in labor contents across ethnic groups in Malaysia (1991-2000)


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Saari, Mohd Yusof and Pei, Jiansuo (2013) Skill-biased export growth: accounting for the changes in labor contents across ethnic groups in Malaysia (1991-2000). The Singapore Economic Review, 58 (2). art. no. 1350010. pp. 1-25. ISSN 0217-5908; ESSN: 1793-6837

Abstract

This paper quantifies the extent to which trade liberalization in Malaysia between 1991 and 2000 has contributed to the expansion in the most skilled labor, which in turn can validate the trade-enhanced quality upgrading hypothesis. By using an input–output structural decomposition analysis (SDA), results confirm the theoretical predication that skills help to upgrade the quality of exporting commodities, by documenting that trade growth is associated with increases in the use of the higher skilled labor. We observe that Chinese and Indian ethnic groups contribute the most to the quality upgrading of exporting commodities, more so than the Malays, which imply productivity differentials among the ethnic groups.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590813500100
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Keywords: Labour content; Structural decomposition analysis (SDA); Ethnic groups
Depositing User: Umikalthom Abdullah
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2015 05:28
Last Modified: 05 Feb 2016 07:34
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30849
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