The Impact of Foreign Workers on The Manufacturing Output, Employment and Wages in Malaysia

The objectives of this study are to investigate the impact of foreign workers on the manufacturing output, employment and wages. In order to achieve these objectives, the simultaneous equation models are developed and the analyses are based on data from the Industrial Survey conducted by the Department of Statistics Malaysia. The Labor demand models have been derived from the Cobb-Douglas production function. These included the demand function for foreign workers and wage function for local workers. The results from the estimation of the production function show that foreign workers in the category of professional is significantly contributed to the output growth. The demand for foreign workers reveals that the professional is positively related to output level and their respective wage rates. However, they are negatively related to the price of capital and local wage rate. That means the professional of foreign workers are complement with the local w! orkers and capital

Who get paid higher? A study on wages decomposition between manufacturing and non-manufacturing workers in Indonesia

In 2008, Indonesia became a member of the G20, and it is estimated that in 2030 it will be in the top seventh economic countries if it can keep growing. Nevertheless, high economic growth was followed by an inequality problem. This study will analyze the wage gap between manufacturing and non-manufacturing workers. Using Sakernas 2020 and the Mincer wage model regression, the result showed that all independent variables: age, level of education, gender, region of residence, marital status, toddler, disability status, and certificate training influence wages for both manufacturing and non-manufacturing workers. Next, the Blinder-Oaxaca method decomposes the wage gap between both groups. It is shown that manufacturing workers get higher wages than non-manufacturing workers because of differences in the characteristic of workers and also industry attributes which, in this case, capital intensity

Population administration service satisfaction in Lima Puluh Kota District, West Sumatera

Assessment of public satisfaction with an agency's performance that organizes public services needs to be assessed by involving all service attributes because service attributes cannot stand alone, and performance improvement cannot be made separately. Assessment of service attributes is one way to track consumer ratings so that service providers can understand the causes of service problems. This study uses the Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) method. From this study, it was found that the priority that needs to be improved to improve public satisfaction with population administration services is to increase the discipline of officers in serving the community, certainty of service costs, and speed of service