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Fulltext Pre-employment medical examination of migrant workers--the ethical and legal issues

Jayakumar G

Med J Malaysia, 2006 Dec;61(5):516-8.

PMID: 17623949

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Malaysia can't thrive while it excludes minority talent

Phang IY

Nature, 2005 Sep 15;437(7057):318.

PMID: 16163325

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Return-to-work program for injured workers: factors of successful return to employment

Awang H, Shahabudin SM, Mansor N

Asia Pac J Public Health, 2016 Nov;28(8):694-702.

PMID: 27022093 DOI: 10.1177/1010539516640354

This study examined the factors of successful return to employment among participants in the return to work program (RTW) following work-related injury. Data were obtained from the Social Security Organization database containing 9850 injured workers who underwent RTW in 2010 to 2013. About 65% had successfully returned to employment. Significant factors of successful return include gender, employer interest, motivation, age, intervention duration, and type of injury. Male and motivated employees were more likely to return to employment compared with female and unmotivated employees, respectively. Participants from interested employers were 23.22 times more likely to return to work than those from uninterested employers, whereas participants whose intervention period exceeded 5 months were 41% less likely to return to work compared with those whose intervention period was within 3 months. Appropriate strategy and enhanced collaboration between the stakeholders would improve the proportion of successful return to employment.
Keyword: SOCSO

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/psychology

Employability among people with uncontrolled seizures: An interpretative phenomenological approach

Wo MC, Lim KS, Choo WY, Tan CT

Epilepsy Behav, 2015 Apr;45:21-30.

PMID: 25794681 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.02.016

This study aimed to explore positive and negative factors affecting the employability in patients with uncontrolled seizures.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/psychology*; Unemployment/psychology*

Fulltext Gender differences in socioeconomic returns to family migration in Malaysia: the role of family decision making versus labor market stratification

Chattopadhyay A

Gender Issues, 2000;18(2):29-47.

PMID: 12296212 DOI: 10.1007/s12147-000-0009-y

In this article the author examines gender differences in the effect of family migration on socioeconomic attainment in Malaysia. The analysis discerns the relative importance of gender roles in household migration decisions, compared to gender stratification in the labor market. The Malaysian economy has undergone rapid industrialization and great structural changes which have opened up new economic opportunities, particularly for women. Despite the somewhat advantaged position of women compared to men in the Malaysian labor market, the author finds that men experience much greater socioeconomic gains than women from family migration. Hence indicating that family migration decisions in Malaysia, rather than optimizing family gains, compensate for the gender effect in the labor market. However, the gains of Malaysian men are more assured when they move alone. Data for the study come from the second round of the Malaysian Family Life Survey.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Family migration and the economic status of women in Malaysia

Chattopadhyay A

Int Migr Rev, 1997;31(2):338-52.

PMID: 12292875 DOI: 10.1177%2F019791839703100204

"The impact of family migration on women's economic position in a developing country setting is an area that has received relatively little research attention. Incorporating a lifetime perspective, this study makes use of the retrospective migration histories of husbands and wives from the second round of the Malaysian Family Life Survey to estimate how joint migration with the husband affects women's socioeconomic achievement. The findings show that family migration depresses the chances of working, but it does not significantly reduce socioeconomic attainment of those who do work. However, when a woman migrates with her husband she does forgo the substantial advantage she could have derived had she moved alone."

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Japanese direct investment and its impact on migration in the ASEAN 4

Ito S, Iguchi Y

Asian Pac Migr J, 1994;3(2-3):265-94.

PMID: 12289775

"The purpose of this article is to show the relationship among Japanese direct investment...,domestic labor markets, and international labor migration in ASEAN-4 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand). The effects of foreign direct investment on skilled labor migration are also considered."

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Migrant labor absorption in Malaysia

Nayagam J

Asian Pac Migr J, 1992;1(3-4):477-94.

PMID: 12285766

The use of migrant workers to ease labor shortages caused by rapid industrialization in Malaysia during the twentieth century is examined. "This paper will focus on: (1) the extent, composition and distribution of migrant workers; (2) the labor shortage and absorption of migrant workers; and (3) the role of migrant workers in the government's economic restructuring process."

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

The migration transition in Malaysia

Lim LL

Asian Pac Migr J, 1996;5(2-3):319-37.

PMID: 12320775

"Exploring the unique experience of migration transition in Malaysia, this paper identifies the turning points in relation to the level and nature of economic and labor market developments in Malaysia. Examining the development dynamics that mark the passage from exporting labor to depending on foreign labor, the paper concludes that such dynamics are influenced not only by economic but also sociocultural, demographic and policy factors. Several lessons from the Malaysian experience are drawn at the end to be utilized by other countries that still have to reach the turning points of the migration transition."

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Gender, migration, and career trajectories in Malaysia

Chattopadhyay A

Demography, 1998 Aug;35(3):335-44.

PMID: 9749325

With data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey, I use a continuous-state hazards model to study the impact of migration on the dynamics of individuals' careers. I distinguish between the effects of family migration and solo migration by gender. The results show that migration alters the career trajectory primarily by accelerating the process of occupational mobility rather than by increasing the level of occupational attainment. Further, the effect of migration on careers varies by type of migration, especially for women. Male-female differences in the outcome of family migration, however, are visible only in transitions into and out of employment.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/statistics & numerical data*

[[Changes in population and households in a Malay village, 1971-1991]]

Tsubouchi Y

Tonan Ajia Kenkyu, 1992 Sep;30(2):192-212.

PMID: 12157850

"The Malay village of Galok in Kelantan was revisited [in]...1991 to investigate the changes in the population and households in the 20 years since the first intensive community study was conducted there in 1970/71. Major economic activities in 1970/71 were paddy cultivation in rain-fed fields, small scale rubber tapping, and newly introduced tobacco cultivation. The village's population increased from 690 in 1971 to 1,100 in 1991, and the number of households from 145 to 211. Despite the increase in population and households, the households cultivating paddy decreased from 71 to 36, those tapping rubber from 94 to 53, and those growing tobacco from 124 to 40, while regular employment, irregular wage labor in the surrounding areas, and temporary migratory work in Singapore increased remarkably. Many people moved out of the village and many others moved in. Though the former exceed the latter in number, the village population is still increasing owing to the high fertility...." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Introduction: population migration and urbanization in developing countries

Kojima R

Dev Econ, 1996 Dec;34(4):349-69.

PMID: 12292278

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

[Malay women as producers and managers]

Massard J

Tiers Monde, 1985 4 1;26(102):359-70.

PMID: 12340322

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Brunei Darussalam

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs

Backgr Notes Ser, 1985 Apr.

PMID: 12178106

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Female employment and fertility in Peninsular Malaysia: the maternal role incompatibility hypothesis reconsidered

Mason KO, Palan VT

Demography, 1981 Nov;18(4):549-75.

PMID: 7308536

Multivariate analysis of the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey tests the hypothesis that an inverse relationship between women's work and fertility occurs only when there are serious conflicts between working and caring for children. The results are only partly consistent with the hypothesis and suggest that normative conflicts between working and mothering affect the employment-fertility relationship in Malaysia more than spacio-temporal conflicts do. The lack of consistent evidence for the hypothesis, as well as some conceptual problems, lead us to propose an alternative framework for understanding variation in the employment-fertility relationship, both in Malaysia and elsewhere. This framework incorporates ideas from the role incompatibility hypothesis but views the employment-fertility relationship as dependent not just on role conflicts but more generally on the structure of the household's socioeconomic opportunities.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Demographic development in ASEAN: a comparative overview

Herrin AN, Pardoko H, Lim LL, Hongladorom C

Philipp Rev Econ Bus, 1981 Sep-Dec;18(3-4):132-53.

PMID: 12178278

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Female immigrants and labor in colonial Malaya: 1860-1947

Lee SM

Int Migr Rev, 1989;23(2):309-31.

PMID: 12315959

"The role of Chinese and Indian women as immigrants and workers in colonial Malaya is examined using data from censuses, immigration records, official reports and secondary sources. The article discusses the main types of work of female immigrants and their contribution to the economic development of colonial Malaya during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in an attempt to redress the neglect of female immigrants' economic role in Malaya's history. Comparisons between male and female immigrants' labor and between Chinese and Indian immigrants, are drawn to highlight the different conditions of migration and labor for the different groups of immigrants."

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

A global perspective on foreign contract labor

Smart JE, Casco RR

Asian Migr, 1998 Jan-Feb;1(1):8-12.

PMID: 12281042

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

Fulltext Work-family conflict, work- and family-role salience, and women's well-being

Noor NM

J Soc Psychol, 2004 Aug;144(4):389-405.

PMID: 15279329 DOI: 10.3200/SOCP.144.4.389-406

The author considered both the direct effect and the moderator effect of role salience in the stress-strain relationship. In contrast to previous studies that have examined the effects of salience on well-being within specific social roles, the present study focused on the work-family interface. From a sample of 147 employed English women with children, the present results of the regression analyses showed that both effects are possible, depending on the outcome measures used. The author observed a direct effect of role salience in the prediction of job satisfaction; work salience was positively related to job satisfaction, over and above the main-effect terms of work-interfering-with-family (WIF) conflict and family-interfering-with-work (FIW) conflict. In contrast, the author found a moderator effect of role salience and conflict for symptoms of psychological distress. However, contrary to predictions, the author found that work salience exacerbated the negative impact of WIF conflict, rather than FIW conflict, on well-being. The author discussed these results in relation to the literature on work-family conflict, role salience, and the issue of stress-strain specificity.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/psychology*

Employment Among People With Spinal Cord Injury in 22 Countries Across the World: Results From the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey

Post MW, Reinhardt JD, Avellanet M, Escorpizo R, Engkasan JP, Schwegler U, et al.

Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2020 12;101(12):2157-2166.

PMID: 32673653 DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2020.05.027

OBJECTIVES: To describe the employment situation of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) in 22 countries participating in the International Spinal Cord Injury community survey, to compare observed and predicted employment rates, to estimate gaps in employment rates among people with SCI compared with the general population, and to study differences in employment between men and women.

DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey.

SETTING: Community.

PARTICIPANTS: People of employable age (N=9875; 18-64 y) with traumatic or non-traumatic SCI (including cauda equina syndrome) who were at least 18 years of age at the time of the survey, living in the community, and able to respond to one of the available language versions of the questionnaire.

INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The observed employment rate was defined as performing paid work for at least 1 hour a week, and predicted employment rate was adjusted for sample composition from mixed logistic regression analysis.

RESULTS: A total of 9875 participants were included (165-1174 per country). Considerable differences in sample composition were found. The observed worldwide employment rate was 38%. A wide variation was found across countries, ranging from 10.3% to 61.4%. Some countries showed substantially higher or lower employment rates than predicted based on the composition of their sample. Gaps between the observed employment rates among participants with SCI and the general population ranged from 14.8% to 54.8%. On average, employment rates were slightly higher among men compared with women, but with large variation across countries. Employment gaps, however, were smaller among women for most countries.

CONCLUSIONS: This first worldwide survey among people with SCI shows an average employment rate of 38%. Differences between observed and predicted employment rates across countries point at country-specific factors that warrant further investigation. Gaps with employment rates in the general population were considerable and call for actions for more inclusive labor market policies in most of the countries investigated.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/statistics & numerical data*

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