Using Remittance Transaction Data for Timely Estimation of the Foreign Worker Population in Malaysia

Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper investigates how to use micro-level remittance transaction dat...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Zainab Ali, Simler, Kenneth, Yi, Soonhwa
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/726721591929703728/Using-Remittance-Transaction-Data-for-Timely-Estimation-of-the-Foreign-Worker-Population-in-Malaysia
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33913