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

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), r...

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Main Authors: Saari, Mohd Yusof, Pei, Jiansuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30849/1/Skill-biased%20export%20growth.pdf