An analysis of new economy policy in reducing ethnics economic gap in Malaysia: evidence from ethnics occupation segregation and wage differential

This paper estimates the ethnic economic gap in Malaysia before the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1970 and after the end of the NEP in 1986. Specifically, this paper uses the Duncan Dissimilarity Index to estimate occupation segregation between ethnic Malays and the ethnic Chinese; ethnic Malays an...

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Main Author: Hazrul Shahiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6350/1/jeko_47-1.pdf