Malaysia is set to achieve high-income status by 2025, with rising educational attainment and a rapidly aging population leading to questions on the role that migrant workers will play in the future of its development. The paper is organized as follows. The next section presents an overview of Malaysia's migration policies. The third section describes the employment landscape in Malaysia and the role of migrant workers in the landscape
Authors
- Disclosure Date
- 2024/11/05
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Migration, Automation, and the Malaysian Labor Market
- Pages
- 47
- Product Line
- Advisory Services & Analytics
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- MY-Malaysia Supporting Inclusive Growth By Strengthening Human Cap -- P181093
- TF No/Name
- TF0C3000-Supervision, Analysis and Dissemination of the Survey of Refugees and H,TF0C5348-Malaysia - Assessment of Childcare Quality, Demand-side Constraints to
- Unit Owning
- Social Protection & Labor EAP (HEASP)
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction 3
- 2. An overview of Malaysias migration policies 6
- 3. The role of migrant workers in the Malaysian labor market 9
- 4. The potential for automation in Malaysia 18
- 5. How automatable are tasks performed by migrant workers 20
- 5.1 Analyzing the task content of jobs as an indication of automatability based on the Acemoglu and Autor 2011 approach 24
- 5.2 Analyzing the routine task intensity of jobs based on Lewandowski Park and Schottes 2023 routine task intensity scores 28
- 5.3 Analyzing the automatability of jobs based on Frey and Osbornes 2017 computerization scores 30
- 6. Summary of findings and concluding remarks 33
- References 36
- Annex 1 Analyzing the relationship between the share of migrant workers with labor market outcomes of Malaysians 38
- 푏 푏 푏 41
- 풔풌풊풍풍품풓풐풖풑 41
- 풔풌풊풍풍품풓풐풖풑 풚풆풂풓 41
- 푎푔푒푐푖푡 푎푔푒푛표푛푐푖푡 41
- 푦푒푎푟 41
- Annex 2 Acemoglu and Autors 2011 task-based approach 42
- Annex 3 Schotte Park and Lewandowskis 2023 routine task intensity RTI scores 44
- Annex 4 Frey and Osbornes 2017 occupation-based approach 46
