addition, I also need to describe the cause of income inequality in regard to Malaysia with real example and in general provide 3 importance of the income inequality to community organizer. Question 1 (A) As referred to the case study, the income inequality is increasing in the United States because of the high education, skilled and experienced people is getting high wages, but the low educated people is getting low wages. If affected because of changes in labour market such as manual industries changes
market of Malaysia, as the construction of 'Trade Wet' increasingly popular require significant labour. Malaysian construction industry provides employment to 800,000 employees, representing 8% of the total workforce; 69% of these are foreign workers (Abdul-Rahman, H., Wang, C., etc. (2012)) " From previous studies, the Malaysian Government has relied on foreign worker from 1980 late, but there was not a comprehensive policy on the recruitment and placement of migrant workers. Malaysia is a multiracial
manufacturing industry is gradually shifting its production towards the countries in south-east Asia, namely Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia, attracted by the abundant supply of local manpower and low cost of operation. At the moment, Malaysia is estimated to have 2.2 million legal migrant workers in year 2015 (MTUC, 2015). According to Watanabe (2003), there is no doubt that Malaysia is one of the countries with a large number of foreign workers and that her economy is highly dependent on foreign workers
issue of labors shortage at all level” ("Foreign Workers And The Malaysia Economy", 2004/2005). It would be wise to take action of taking immigrant as their workers because immigrant will help in getting profit and maintain the performance. Immigrant are easy to recruit and also immigrant accept if their boss give them a low income. Local workers were being offered higher wages than immigrants but immigrant’s wages are higher than wages
Unemployment Introduction Unemployment is a situation whereby a person who reached working age of 16, available for work and willing to work but he/she cannot find a job. There are 3 types of unemployment which are frictional unemployment (due to the normal working of the labour market used to denote short run job or skill matching problems), structural unemployment (due to the changes in the structure of the economy) and also cyclical unemployment (due to recessions and depressions). Content Article
2.1 Unemployment In Malaysia Higher Than Neighbouring Countries The article states that Malaysia has a higher unemployment rate which is 10.4% compare to the neighbouring countries such as 3.4% in Thailand and 7% in Singapore. Hence, Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim urged that the government should take actions to reduce the unemployment rate. Malaysians especially the young generation face two major problems which are unemployment and underemployment. Besides, he hoped that government should more concerned
“Malaysia faces an exodus of talent in which emigration of high-skill individuals with the intention of holding permanent employment in foreign countries consequently lead to an issue of brain drain”. Examine the implications it brings and suggest some practical initiatives to overcome this issue of brain drain in Malaysia. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has alluded to the spirit of ‘Malaysia Boleh’ that describing the country’s progressive economic strategies. Malaysia continues to be growing
work as well. However, the explanation is in a total opposite way when the term unemployed is defined, in which a person is only considered to be unemployed if and only if he or she is actively seeking for a job and willing to work at the prevailing wage but is unable to find a job (Nazaria Baharudin, 2004). Besides, Nazaria Baharudin also states that unemployment can also be referred to the circumstances of being unemployed as well as the amount of unemployed in the working population.
daily needs. In additional, it also provides capital to small and medium businesses to finance their rolling capital. Abd. Ghafar and Nur Azura (2005) stated that the importance of pawnshop as a credit resource in Malaysia financial market is difficult to estimate because Bank Negara Malaysia does not take into consideration the credit given by the pawnshop in the domestic statistic on the
corporate ethical responsibility, we can see through Nestle Company in UK which has become the first corporation to pay the living wage which is currently set at £8.80 per hour in London and £7.65 in elsewhere, compared to the national minimum wage of £6.31. Fiona Kendrick, the chief executive of Nestle UK & Ireland, he said that the purpose of having the living wage is to benefit their employees and the communities they live. From this illustration, we can know that the employer is paying attention