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  "title": "Malaysia: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, March 7, 2018",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues Paper presents an overview of the Malaysian labor market. Malaysia’s economy and its labor market have undergone significant shifts in the last three decades. The labor market is now more urban and has a higher share of female workers and workers with tertiary education.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Presents an overview of the Malaysian labor market and its evolution over the last three decades.\n- Highlights Malaysia’s ongoing economic transformation and ambition to achieve high-income status.\n- Emphasizes the need for a labor market that can support more female workers, more skilled jobs, and higher labor productivity growth."
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      "heading": "Major findings",
      "content": "- The labor market is now more urban.\n- The labor market has a higher share of female workers.\n- The labor market has a higher share of workers with tertiary education.\n- Employment has kept pace with labor supply, keeping the unemployment rate stable for more than a decade.\n- Reliance on noncitizen workers has increased against the backdrop of slower growth in citizen population."
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    {
      "heading": "Policy implications and priorities",
      "content": "- Facilitate increased female labor force participation to support the economy’s transformation toward high-income status.\n- Promote creation of more skilled jobs aligned with higher labor productivity growth.\n- Address the rising reliance on noncitizen workers in the context of slower citizen population growth through labor market and migration policies.\n- Ensure that employment growth continues to match labor supply to maintain stable unemployment."
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      "heading": "Key statistics and publication identifiers (as reported)",
      "content": "- Publication date: March 7, 2018\n- Pages: 27\n\nMalaysia: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Country Report\n  - Country Report (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Country Report (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: March 7, 2018",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484345092.002",
    "Presents an overview of the Malaysian labor market and its evolution over the last three decades.",
    "Highlights Malaysia’s ongoing economic transformation and ambition to achieve high-income status.",
    "Emphasizes the need for a labor market that can support more female workers, more skilled jobs, and higher labor productivity growth.",
    "The labor market is now more urban.",
    "The labor market has a higher share of female workers.",
    "The labor market has a higher share of workers with tertiary education.",
    "Reliance on noncitizen workers has increased against the backdrop of slower growth in citizen population.",
    "Facilitate increased female labor force participation to support the economy’s transformation toward high-income status.",
    "Promote creation of more skilled jobs aligned with higher labor productivity growth.",
    "Address the rising reliance on noncitizen workers in the context of slower citizen population growth through labor market and migration policies.",
    "Ensure that employment growth continues to match labor supply to maintain stable unemployment.",
    "Publication date: March 7, 2018",
    "Pages: 27",
    "**Country Report**"
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