Labour market information: The Malaysian scene by Ab Hamid, Kamal, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli, Zulhumadi, Faisal

“…Finally, for this research, the establishment of Labour Market Information (LMI) database was a very challenging task since information on labour market were initially still too large. …”
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Labour market consideration as course selection criteria in a Malaysian university by Subramaniam, T., Idris, H., Mohd Ariff, M.R.

“…Findings from this study reveals that in pre-entry selection criteria, ‘teacher’ and ‘family’ factors appears to be more important. ‘Labour market consideration’ only appears to be the third important factor in this stage. …”
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Higher education and the labour market : a country report from Malaysia. by M.Y., Sulaiman, Abu Hassan, Musa, Ismail, Narimah, Joned, Rusinah.

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Graduates' characteristics and labour market entry: A study among Malaysian graduates by Ismail, N.A., Daud, F., Wan Muhd Zain, W.R., Che Ibrahim, A.A.

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Understanding the barriers and the possibilities : a study of people with disabilities and their lived experience of the labour market by Nyby, Josefine, Lewis, Jane, Fernando, Sandra

“…Collaboration between researchers at LMU and a Borough in London (Borough X or Council X) As in line with EA (2010) councils can set up employment support services and various schemes, and Council X was interested in knowing what works and what does no To get a better understanding of people with disabilities and their lived experience of the labour market To present policy suggestions for improving labour market participation and services based on the evidence collected…”
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Women in the workforce by Abdull Rahman, Rabeatul Husna

“…This article reviews the participation of female employees in the Malaysian labour market. It seeks to highlight female significance and contribution towards Malaysian economy. …”
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Unemployment and job vacancy dynamics in Malaysia: ARDL approach to co-integration analysis by Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu, Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi, Md. Noor, Zaleha

“…This paper examines the long-run co-integration relationship between unemployment and macroeconomic variables in the Malaysian labour market. Econometric methods of Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Method is employed. …”
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Causality between female fertility and female labour force participation in Asean-5 by Subramaniam, T., Loganathan, N., Devadason, E.S., Majid, M.

“…A high participation of females in the labour market can reduce fertility, conversely, high female fertility can also reduce female participation in the labour market. …”
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Migration impact on Moroccan unemployment: A static computable general equilibrium analysis by Karam, Fida, Decaluwe, Bernard

“…However, it is common to find labour markets affected simultaneously by inflows and outflows of workers. …”
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Competences in the context of social and economic changes and perspectives of human resources development by Veteska, Jaroslav

“…It further aims to present data gathered in researches,carried out in 2005 and 2009, which focused on the dynamics of the labour market demands.The questionnaire research addressed 293 respondents from small and medium-sized companies. …”
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Labour institutions and the regulation approach:The Malaysian case. by Wangel, Arne

“…Malaysia's rapid economic growth, industrial development and state policies is subject for numerous studies emphasising, among other. things, the expansion of certain industries, structural barriers on the labour market, accumulation of local (manufacturing) capital, establishment of resource-based industries, state-participation in manufacturing activities and the ethnic configuration of social forces. …”
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Effects of R&D expenditure on employment growth : a dynamic panel analysis. by Said, Rusmawati, Samsi, Aznita, Wan Ngah, Wan Azman Saini

“…Employment growth in Malaysian labour market however still favour to labour oriented and the absorption of the new technology is considered low.…”
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From entrepreneurial career choice to graduate entrepreneur: an exploratory study by Lim, Hock Eam, Soon, Jan Jan

“…This paper aims to study the graduates’ entrepreneurial career choice and their actual labour market outcomes of being entrepreneur using a sample of 1,723 Malaysian graduates. …”
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Achieving Quality Education through Service-Learning Activities by Sulaiman, Aryati Juliana, Che Pak, Nur Azliani Haniza

“…Studies show mismatches between educational outcomes and labour market needs. Employers value soft skills and work experience over academic and professional qualifications. …”
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Measuring Signal of Skill Mismatch from Online Job Advertisements and HR Roles: A conceptual paper by Zuria Akmal, Saad, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Naliza, Solat, Azmi, Salim

“…By enhancing online job advertisements and refining HR roles, this study aims to improve future labour market conditions.…”
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Foreign labour in Malaysian manufacturing: trends, patterns and implications for domestic wages by Athukorala, P.C., Devadason, E.S.

“…The first four sections of the paper provide an overview of Malaysian labour market policy, structural change and labour absorption, and emerging patterns of foreign worker presence in the manufacturing sector. …”
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South East Asian workers in South Korea: Current status and issues by Tan, S.K.

“…Since South Korea opened its labour market for the foreign workers, the foreign worker's policy has been changed for several times and thus given a big impact to the migrant workers' lives in Korea, particularly for the sojourn status of workers. …”
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Skill proportion in education sector by Said, Rusmawati, Haris, Asmaddy, Abdul Hamid, Kamarul Hidayah

“…Perhaps these analyses help us to look whether employment or wages factors are dominant ta lead the changes in overall labour market. We found that skill proportion in education sector in Malaysia was favour to professional workers as compared to technical and associates professionals. …”
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Conceptual analysis of e-recruitment: The role of web-site usability and organizational attraction of personnel in Nigeria by Musalli, Naziru Mohammed, Harun, Azhar, Zainuddin, Ruslan

“…As a result of rapid increased of technology advancement, the level of utilizing internet and electronic mails in conducting business activities in organizations had evident globally.The aims of this study are to examine the importance of e-recruitment in facilitating organizational process of selecting quality and competence employees.The impact of globalization on today’s tight and competitive labour market, available vacancies most be fill with qualified candidates as a major roles played by human resource managers.In the same vein, organizations realised that proper management of men, money, method, machinery etc, resulted to higher degree of productivity when suitable qualified people are recruited. …”
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Lifelong learning in Canada: A focus on adult learners by Syed, Fariya

“…More detailed findings from these studies that go on to investigate access and support to education and training, barriers, returns and labour market outcomes for different subsets of the population will be presented with a link to their relevance in Canadian policy development.The paper will conclude with plans for future research and potential opportunities for collaborative research…”
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