Research Catalog

Title

Income and growth in Malaysia / James P. Smith ; prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Author

Smith, James P., 1943-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1983]

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Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Agency for International Development

Description

xv, 67 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

This report examines how economic development has affected the life-cycle wage and employment histories of various cohorts of Malaysian male workers. The report contains four sections. Section I briefly sketches the structure of the Malaysian economy and highlights the main changes that have occurred since World War II. Section II describes the Malaysian Family Life Survey, the data file on which this research is based. These data are unique in providing the first detailed portrait of career and cohort evolutions of wages and employment for a less developed country that is undergoing substantial economic growth. Because there is so little hard evidence on labor markets in less developed countries, Sec. III presents a descriptive summary of the principal characteristics of the Malaysian labor market. Finally, Sec. IV presents a statistical analysis of individual wages, with an emphasis on trying to sort out determinants of life-cycle and across-cohort wage growth.

Series Statement

The Rand publications series

Uniform Title

The Rand publications series.

Subject

• Income > Malaysia
• Income distribution > Malaysia
• Labor supply > Malaysia
• Malaysia > Economic conditions
• Men > Employment > Malaysia

Note

• "May 1983."
• "R-2941-AID."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 67.

Funding (note)

• Supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833005081 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^83196235^

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