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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.advisor | Zulkifly Osman, Prof. Madya Dr. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Wye Chung Khain (P42106) | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-10T09:05:43Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-10T09:05:43Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-07-29 | - |
| dc.identifier.other | ukmvital:121508 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/485756 | - |
| dc.description | Malaysian Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) services sub-sector contributes substantial proportion to economic and employment growth. The outstanding performance in this sub-sector is supposed to have improved female’s financial status. However, male’s average monthly wages are still higher than that of the female. Previous studies have ignored the role of gender differences in occupational preferences and hiring discrimination in explaining gender wage differentials. Besides that, the effects of personality traits on occupational attainment, occupational preferences and wage determination are absent from the previous studies. Most importantly, previous studies have undermined the importance of decomposing gender differences in employability skills into two causes, i.e. gender differences in the ability to master the skills, and gender differences in the perceptions held on how well their previous schooling had developed their skills. Therefore, the present study examines the sources of gender wage differentials in Malaysian ICT services sub-sector by incorporating the effects of the abovementioned components. Using questionnaire survey method on 962 workers in Malaysian ICT services sub-sector, the results show that on average males’ monthly wage is 4.21 percent higher than that of females. Total unexplained factors widen the overall gender wage differentials by 114.56 percent, while total explained factors shrink the wage gap by 14.56 percent, producing the divergence coefficient to be 0.0483. This is justifiable on the ground that females’ characteristics outperform that of the males on average. If females were not being discriminated, they would have earned more than the males. The total unexplained and explained factors make up 88.72 percent and 11.28 percent of the wage gap, respectively, when being weighted at 100. Unequal pay for equal work is a serious problem in widening the wage gap, alongside with occupational preferences and hiring discrimination, while gender differences in productivity-related characteristics and the way they are rewarded, especially for employability skills, have reduced the wage gap. However, gender differences in employability skills have widened the gap by 5.22 percent. Among all, gender differences in the perception on their skills development and ability to master the skills explain 3.91 percent and 1.31 percent of the gap, respectively. Yet, personality traits are not as important in wage determination as they are for characterising occupational attainment. This finding suggests that learning institutions in Malaysia play an important role in imparting useful employability skills among students, which in turn affects the students’ future earnings. In addition, pre-market antidiscrimination policy is as important as post-market antidiscrimination policy in Malaysia.,Certification of Masters/ Doctorial Thesis" is not available | - |
| dc.language.iso | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | UKM, Bangi | - |
| dc.relation | Faculty of Economy and Management / Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan | - |
| dc.rights | UKM | - |
| dc.subject | Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia | - |
| dc.subject | Pay equity -- Malaysia | - |
| dc.subject | Economics -- Psychological aspects | - |
| dc.title | Gender wage differentials in Malaysian information, communications and technology subsector : economic and psychological perspectives | - |
| dc.type | Theses | - |
| dc.format.pages | 294 | - |
| dc.identifier.callno | HD6061.2.M4W945 2013 tesis | - |
| dc.identifier.barcode | 002770 (2013) | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Economy and Management / Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan | |
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