Decomposing the earnings differentials in Peninsular Malaysia

Vim P. M. Vijverberg

Using a new method to estimate market and self-employment wages that incorporates the endogenous choice between wage market work and self-employment work, the author decomposes the earnings differentials between Malay, Chinese and Indian workers in Peninsular Malaysia. Data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey show that the measured Chinese-Malay wage gap is only to one-fourth due to an explained ethnic wage effect and almost one-half due to ethnic choice of employment activity. (DÜI-Sen)

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Year of publication:	1987
Authors:	Vijverberg, Wim P. M.
Published in:	The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic Society of Singapore and the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. - Hackensack, NJ [u.a.] : World Scientific, ISSN 0217-5908, ZDB-ID 231534-8. - Vol. 32.1987, 1, p. 24-36
Subject:	Malaya \| Malay Peninsula \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour market \| Ethnische Gruppe \| Ethnic group \| 1976

Extent:	4 Tab., Lit. S. 35-36
Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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