Foreign workers to entrepreneurs: A framework of job displacement

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Norehan, Maamor, Selamah, Golam Hassan, Asan Ali, Abdullah, Hussin, Hussin, Fauzi, Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2012
• Subjects: HB Economic Theory
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/7554/1/Fo.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/7554/; http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v7n10p2

The entry of foreign workers on a large scale to Malaysia in the 1980s was mainly to smooth and facilitate the development of economic structural change as unskilled labor in the formal sector. It is expected that in the process of adjusting to economic changes, there is a shift of employment of f...