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Malaysia Malaysian employers practise racial bigotry, study showsBy Debra Chong
Assistant News EditorNov 02, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 — Malaysian employers tend to favour Chinese job applicants over their Malay counterparts, a recent university study has shown, indicating racial discrimination underscores the hiring process in the private sector labour market.

In their joint research, Universiti Malaya (UM) senior lecturer in development studies Dr Lee Hwok Aun and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) research fellow Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid found that fresh Chinese graduates are more likely to be called for a job interview based on their resumes compared to Malays.


File photo of a Workers’ Day rally in Kuala Lumpur. Two academics found that there is racial discrimination in the hiring process based on an experiment they had conducted.“Our findings suggest that employers are generally predisposed favourably towards Chinese, substantially due to compatibility factors and unobservable qualities not revealed in job applications, and are more selective towards Malays, which results in fewer but considerably qualified applicants getting callbacks,” the duo stated in an abstract of their seminar paper being presented at UM today.

The two academics said they had conducted a field experiment by sending made-up resumes of fresh Malay and Chinese graduates to real job advertisements.

From their research, Lee and Muhammed Abdul found that while both Malay and Chinese graduates who listed Chinese-language proficiency and stated that they graduated from a certain university were likely to increase their chances to be called for an interview, yet employers — especially those that were Chinese-controlled or foreign-run — were significantly inclined to pick the Chinese applicant.They noted that the racial discrimination was sharper in engineering jobs than in the accounting or finance sector.

They also found that in the engineering industry, Malays were most likely to be rejected by foreign-controlled companies, followed by Malay-controlled companies and lastly Chinese-controlled firms.However, they said their data does not directly show the motif of the racial discrimination in the hiring process based on the experiment they had conducted.

Lee and Muhammed Abdul are presenting their paper, titled “Does race matter in getting an interview? A field experiment of hiring discrimination in Peninsular Malaysia”, at UM’s Economics and Administration Faculty at 10am.

Malaysia’s mushrooming local higher education institutions churned out a total 184,581 graduates last year, according to the latest statistics released on the Higher Education Ministry’s website. Of that figure, 44,391 people or 24 per cent are unemployed. The Najib administration has set aside some RM500 million in its Budget 2013 to spend on jobless youths to make them marketable.

Human rights group Proham — formed by influential former members of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia and the Police Commission — has been urging Putrajaya to ratify the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1969 (ICERD), which it suggests will be a positive step to resolve the existing racial bigotry in the country than sweeping it under the carpet.

Its chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun stressed that racial discrimination was a form of human rights violation that triggers a “brain drain” situation and stands in the way of Malaysia’s progress in today’s competitive world.

“There are no less than 1.5 million Malaysians with tertiary education who have left the country,” he said in a statement two days ago, adding that it “stunts meritocracy”.

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DID THIS NEWS SURPRISE YOU?

What for ? he is leaving his seat soon once GE happened, then it will be a new guy from god knows which party/PR or BN, and he too will sit there for how long ?

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Jan 9 2013, 11:43 AM

I happen to believe, ah moi now get their own wang.

The study actually show foreign own companies, MNCs actually prefer chinese too jsut like chinaman

I like fletcherwind's thought. It is not a coincidence that govt of malaysia hence needs to in addition to employ 10% of the workforce have to tasked itself in creating a lot of PLCs, either bought in using Khazanah, PNB, EPF, etc. or greate a long list of GLCs. Else? how majority of the workforce will be employed and how unemployment rate can be controlled.

While it is great way to ensure employment since private companies couldn't care less. How long can this go on as Malaysia has already been criticised of being too involved in Economy. But I think we have no choice, and it can still work as western free market system has shown to be increasingly flawed while Asian unique blend of country management is showing its merits as all hope now rests in ASIA: China, India, SEA

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Jan 9 2013, 12:16 PM

Await in anticipation...when the end comes, it can only mean a new beginning...of something wonderful, painful but wonderful, phoenix rise from ashes?

Good, because SME is the pulse of our economy and will ring true for many other countries too

Nova80 is a good reader, I grant him that!

Yaloh napoli26,

uni is the stepping stone, u have to have it first
-going though the motion-before job placement take place. and with the sheer size of the majority, u need to increase the uni placement hence more special uni,

Kalau tidak, macam mana?

there is nothing to celebrate here, it is just a survey to reveal what is known, suspected? It does not make any C r M or even I or other ehthnics feel any better necessarily. At the end of the day, this survey is done to determine if race is a determining factor in hiring , and it is, so should we take this fact and say phew I am safe-C, or shit I am screwed-M. and leave it as it is, Absolutely no, it just show the facts whatever race you are, opportnities reside at different places. Take advantage of where your chances are abundant

@hercules899
All companies whether CHINA-MAN companies, Foreign or bumi owned give out peanut pay, need to work like dog, and most importantly, they always think that you should Be grateful to work OT and appreciative of your low pay. Not much or very little difference.

@michael light, you have a point , making things easier for some through the system may have been the result of this....in real workplace, every employers are demanding and generally are not compelled to make working life 'easy
'... And that may influence their decision in choosing who they expect can take on hard work and endure.

@dreamer101. Double standards before you graduate, double standard after you graduates. Double standard will remain. To think new government can actually change that, is really something quite far fetch...keadilan seek for keadilan but would they really make an adil malaysia? Only time will tell

Hi all, read this.
http://econsmalaysia.blogspot.com/2012/04/...aysian.html?m=1

Honestly I do believe in god and karma but like most religious people, I really despise those who suddenly acquire " holier thy thou" thinking and start judging and labelling others ' obviously you do not believe....'

Which religion god gives u that , which god teach you to be so "humble'? Which religion judges people freely like that even Christian and Muslim believe only God can judge and also not until judgement day. So unless you have constructive comments, please stop skewing this topic to sensitive and touchy subject of faith and race. I started this topic to just reveal facts of a study and hope you are kind enough to do only two things. Identify the problem and offer a solution.

p/s no body dies and makes u a messiah, stop being a self proclaim hero, u are hallucinating bro!

WOW big words from a big guy who still know nothing about humility.

Now not only I am according to you obviously non-believer in God and karma, i am accused some more of no moral, stand for nothing ,WHOEVER in power can do whatever they want to me, no sense of RIGHT and WRONG. ANY MORE?

Boy, you are really something, and I hope karma that you have created here come back and reward you dearly

OK, thanks.

I have for 8 years with Chinaman co. and now 7 with European MNC co. and it is same sh*t different place

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Jan 10 2013, 08:33 PM

Dern, care to elaborate why u think so?

So the conclusion is what goes around comes around or reap the seed that you sowed?!

That's right , just like QC, if can , everyone wants Highest quality at lowest or same price, so business reality is like that.