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The Role of Labour Standards in Shaping the Migration in ASEAN Countries

Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

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Title The Role of Labour Standards in Shaping the Migration in ASEAN Countries
 
Creator Ng, Kar Yee
Rusmawati, Said
 
Subject labour standards, bilateral migration, ASEAN
J61, J8
 
Description This study uses a panel data set consists of 45 countries to investigate the role of labour standards in explaining the pattern of bilateral migration flows in ASEAN. Using pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) method, this study finds mixed results. The results varied on what indicators were used to measure the level of labour standards in the empirical analysis. On one side, better labour standards (represented by number of strikes and weekly average working hours) promote bilateral migration among the selected countries. On the other side, increase in cases of occupational injuries lead to an increase in bilateral migration, reflecting that worsen in working conditions do not influence the workers’ decision from moving. The empirical analysis also documents changes in the sign and significance level for the estimated coefficients when different statistics are used for the labour standards proxies. The finding from this study become important to policy makers as the issue of massive low-skilled workers have a significant impact to the role of labour standard in shaping the migration flows. 
 
Publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
 
Contributor Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS), Ministry of Education Malaysia
 
Date 2015-12-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Identifier http://ejournal.ukm.my/jem/article/view/8254
 
Source Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia; Vol 49, No 2 (2015): Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia; 3-15
0126-1962
 
Language en