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The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia

Date

Authors

Athukorala, Premachandra

Devadason, Evelyn S

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of foreign labor on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labor has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on

Keywords

Keywords: econometrics; labor migration; manufacturing; migrant worker; wage; Malaysia Asia; Foreign workers; International labor migration; Malaysia; Wages

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62527

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

World Development

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.04.025

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2037-12-31

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