Demand and supply effects on native-immigrant wage differentials: the case of Malaysia

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 The difference of the mean

Variables	Pooled	Native \(({\upmu }^{\mathrm{n}})\)	Immigrant \(({\upmu }^{\mathrm{m}})\)	T-test \({\mathrm{H}}_{1}:{\upmu }^{\mathrm{n}}-{\upmu }^{\mathrm{m}}\ne 0)\)
Hourly wage	12.208	12.890	5.675	***
Log hourly wage	2.007	2.074	1.369	***
Male	0.537	0.505	0.849	***
Married	0.633	0.652	0.456	***
Training	2.493	2.663	0.868	***
Tenure	7.525	7.895	3.979	***
Tenure square	105.758	113.472	31.868	***
\|Potential experience	17.037	17.200	15.481	***
Potential experience square	414.738	426.593	301.185	***
Degree	0.138	0.149	0.035	***
Diploma	0.144	0.156	0.038	***
Upper secondary	0.362	0.376	0.227	***
Low education	0.355	0.319	0.701	***
Management	0.083	0.091	0.013	***
Professional	0.096	0.104	0.020	***
Skilled	0.183	0.189	0.124	***
Unskilled	0.364	0.336	0.630	***
Non production/apprentice	0.274	0.280	0.213	***
Central	0.431	0.438	0.365	***
North	0.207	0.201	0.263	***
South	0.265	0.259	0.321	***
East coast	0.021	0.022	0.010	***
Sabah	0.033	0.033	0.029
Sarawak	0.044	0.047	0.013	***
Manufacturing	0.790	0.770	0.982	***
Percentage of vacancies	0.139	0.136	0.173	***
Vacancy duration	3.945	3.861	4.742	***
Age of the firm	18.444	18.645	16.516	***
Small firm	0.478	0.460	0.651	***
Medium firm	0.287	0.293	0.227	***
Large firm	0.235	0.247	0.121	***
Union	0.084	0.090	0.031	***
Export oriented firm	0.446	0.444	0.466
Non export oriented firm	0.554	0.556	0.534
Locally owned companies	0.727	0.720	0.790	***
Foreign owned companies	0.273	0.280	0.210	***
Public limited company	0.035	0.038	0.008	***
Overemployment	0.227	0.223	0.267	***
Underemployment	0.217	0.213	0.255	***
Sufficient employment	0.556	0.564	0.478	***