Comments on: Surprise! Migrant workers from Malaysia remit more home http://anilnetto.com/democracy-2/asean/surprise-migrant-workers-from-malaysia-remit-more-home/ Let justice flow like a mighty river Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hong Chun Jen http://anilnetto.com/democracy-2/asean/surprise-migrant-workers-from-malaysia-remit-more-home/comment-page-1/#comment-25719 Hong Chun Jen Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:28:33 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2007/10/20/surprise-migrant-workers-from-malaysia-remit-more-home/#comment-25719 Thousands of Malaysian youths have gone overseas to study and remained to work overseas after they graduate. This brain drain has gone on for a long time already. Many of such students were and are self financed. The cash outflow is in the billions each year. Apart from this outflow, has any study been made on the national income all these graduates and talents would have contributed to generated for the country had they come home but had been lost to the country for not coming home? Thousands of Malaysian youths have gone overseas to study and remained to work overseas after they graduate. This brain drain has gone on for a long time already. Many of such students were and are self financed. The cash outflow is in the billions each year. Apart from this outflow, has any study been made on the national income all these graduates and talents would have contributed to generated for the country had they come home but had been lost to the country for not coming home?

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]]> By: saengch http://anilnetto.com/democracy-2/asean/surprise-migrant-workers-from-malaysia-remit-more-home/comment-page-1/#comment-237 saengch Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:05:56 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2007/10/20/surprise-migrant-workers-from-malaysia-remit-more-home/#comment-237 Macro economic trends change over a generations or two. The Phillipinos in the 1960's probably never expected their sons and daughters going out to work overseas in such a large scale. The way Malaysia is going down, and the other economies are going up, we will be surprised in a generation or two. We may have already seen the start of these changes in trends: 1. It is no longer profitable for the Philippinos and Thais to come to work in Malaysia 2. Indonesian maids' quality has fallen, as Malaysian US$ wages stagnate and Indonesian wages overseas rise. This is the same as saying we can no longer afford higher-quality, better-trained, Indonesian maids. Better trained Phillipino and Indonesian maids are in Singapore and HK. 3. Malaysian skilled labour is already priced out of the Taiwan market by Thai workers. 4. Malaysian export of accounting professionals is shifting from high-salary Singapore and HK, to lower-wage China, 5. Malaysian trained service personnel (accountants, nurse, personal trainers) are shifting to the Middle East in increasing number, It is a scary thought for now, but when the NEP is finally abandoned (it will have to be, or the Malaysian economy will fall even harder on corruption and waste), the unemployable young people of our no-thinking local universities - mostly Malay youth - may stream to work in the Middle East, or middle management in Indonesia. But in the end, each of them will grow stronger and more independent from that challenge after a decade or two. Macro economic trends change over a generations or two. The Phillipinos in the 1960′s probably never expected their sons and daughters going out to work overseas in such a large scale. The way Malaysia is going down, and the other economies are going up, we will be surprised in a generation or two.

We may have already seen the start of these changes in trends:

1. It is no longer profitable for the Philippinos and Thais to come to work in Malaysia
2. Indonesian maids’ quality has fallen, as Malaysian US$ wages stagnate and Indonesian wages overseas rise. This is the same as saying we can no longer afford higher-quality, better-trained, Indonesian maids. Better trained Phillipino and Indonesian maids are in Singapore and HK.
3. Malaysian skilled labour is already priced out of the Taiwan market by Thai workers.
4. Malaysian export of accounting professionals is shifting from high-salary Singapore and HK, to lower-wage China,
5. Malaysian trained service personnel (accountants, nurse, personal trainers) are shifting to the Middle East in increasing number,

It is a scary thought for now, but when the NEP is finally abandoned (it will have to be, or the Malaysian economy will fall even harder on corruption and waste), the unemployable young people of our no-thinking local universities – mostly Malay youth – may stream to work in the Middle East, or middle management in Indonesia. But in the end, each of them will grow stronger and more independent from that challenge after a decade or two.

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