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Malaysia's Perennial Underemployment Issue

Wan Amirah Wan Usamah, Research Associate, Khazanah Research Institute

13-Nov-24 07:45

Malaysia's Perennial Underemployment Issue

Malaysia's underemployment issues continue with the Department of Statistics Malaysia recently reporting that in the third quarter of this year, around 2 million tertiary-educated Malaysians, were employed in low-skilled jobs, for which they were overqualified. Wan Amirah Wan Usamah, a research associate at Khazanah Research Institute shares some thoughts on why underemployment remains a problem and what can be implemented to tackle these challenges.

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Produced by: Grace Tan, Adani Binti Mohamad Zaidi

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar, Keith Kam


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Categories:  economy,  politics,  markets

Tags:  skills-related underemployment,  tertiary-educated,  malaysian job market,  underemployment, 


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