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Foreign workers and productivity in an emerging economy: The case of Malaysia

机译：新兴经济体中的外国工人和生产力：以马来西亚为例

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Many developed and developing countries are experiencing large and growing levels of international migration of labor. However, the large majority of research on the economic impact of inflows of migrant workers on host economies focuses exclusively on developed countries. In this paper, we address this gap in the literature by examining migrant-induced productivity effects in the emerging economy of Malaysia. Importantly, the Malaysian case is typical for many Asian economies where, next to high skilled foreign workers, large numbers of migrants consist of low skilled workers that are employed in host economies on a temporary basis. Using detailed industry level data for the period 2005 to 2009, we find that both high skilled and low skilled foreign workers generate positive productivity effects in Malaysian manufacturing industries. Furthermore, our results identify a strong presence of industry heterogeneity, as the effects of foreign workers, in general, and low skilled foreign workers, in particular, are pronounced in labor and assembly intensive modern industries with a strong export focus. This indicates the importance of foreign workers for the contemporary international competitiveness of the Malaysian manufacturing sector. As such, our findings provide important new input to the debate on the role of low skilled foreign workers in processes of development of the Malaysian economy.
机译：许多发达国家和发展中国家正经历着国际劳工大迁移且日趋增长的趋势。但是，关于移民工人涌入对东道国经济的经济影响的大多数研究只集中在发达国家。在本文中，我们通过研究马来西亚新兴经济中移民对生产率的影响来解决文献中的这一空白。重要的是，在许多亚洲经济体中，马来西亚的情况很典型，在这些国家中，除了高技能的外国工人外，大量移民是由临时在东道国雇用的低技能的工人组成的。使用2005年至2009年期间的详细行业数据，我们发现高技能和低技能的外国工人都对马来西亚制造业产生了积极的生产力影响。此外，我们的结果表明，行业异质性的存在很强，因为在以出口为重点的劳动和集约密集型现代产业中，外国工人的影响尤其是低技能外国工人的影响尤其明显。这表明外国工人对马来西亚制造业的当代国际竞争力的重要性。因此，我们的发现为有关低技能外国工人在马来西亚经济发展过程中的作用的辩论提供了重要的新投入。

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