Foreign workers in Malaysia: Labour market and firm level analysis

Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-19

  Del Carpio, Ximena ^a   Özden, Çaʇlar ^a   Testaverde, Mauro ^a   Marouani, Mohamed ^b   Nilsson, Bjorn ^c   Wagner, Mathis ^d  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Department of Statistics; Foreign workers; Labour market; Patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932162659     PISSN: 15114554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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