Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note
In this paper, we use daily administrative data from January 25, 2020 to December 31, 2020 to examine the relationship between job losses and the Malaysian lockdown measures. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is used to estimate both the long-run and short-run models. The results o...
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| author | Habibullah, Muzafar Shah Saari, Mohd Yusof Safuan, Sugiharso Haji Din, Badariah Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah |
| author_facet | Habibullah, Muzafar Shah Saari, Mohd Yusof Safuan, Sugiharso Haji Din, Badariah Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah |
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| description | In this paper, we use daily administrative data from January 25, 2020 to December 31, 2020 to examine the relationship between job losses and the Malaysian lockdown measures. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is used to estimate both the long-run and short-run models. The results of the Bounds F-test for cointegration reveal that there is a long-run link between job losses and the Malaysian government lockdown measures (both linear and non-linear). The positive association between job loss and lockdown measures shows that as the lockdown gets tighter, more people will lose their jobs. However, as time passes, especially in conjunction with the government stimulus package programmes, job losses decrease. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-940532023-04-06T08:01:16Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94053/ Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note Habibullah, Muzafar Shah Saari, Mohd Yusof Safuan, Sugiharso Haji Din, Badariah Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah In this paper, we use daily administrative data from January 25, 2020 to December 31, 2020 to examine the relationship between job losses and the Malaysian lockdown measures. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is used to estimate both the long-run and short-run models. The results of the Bounds F-test for cointegration reveal that there is a long-run link between job losses and the Malaysian government lockdown measures (both linear and non-linear). The positive association between job loss and lockdown measures shows that as the lockdown gets tighter, more people will lose their jobs. However, as time passes, especially in conjunction with the government stimulus package programmes, job losses decrease. Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2021-12-17 Article PeerReviewed Habibullah, Muzafar Shah and Saari, Mohd Yusof and Safuan, Sugiharso and Haji Din, Badariah and Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah (2021) Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note. International Journal of Business and Society, 22 (3). 1525 - 1549. ISSN 1511-6670 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/4320 10.33736/ijbs.4320.2021 |
| spellingShingle | Habibullah, Muzafar Shah Saari, Mohd Yusof Safuan, Sugiharso Haji Din, Badariah Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title | Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title_full | Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title_fullStr | Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title_full_unstemmed | Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title_short | Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note |
| title_sort | loss of employment lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the covid 19 pandemic a note |
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