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- Sukemi, Muhammad Najit
(Pusat Pengajian Pembangunan Sosial & Ekonomi Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 21030 Kuala Nerus Terengganu MALAYSIA)
- Berma, Madeline
(Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor MALAYSIA)
- Baharuddin, Shamsul Amri
(Institut Kajian Etnik Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor MALAYSIA)
- Shahadan, Faridah
(Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor MALAYSIA)
Abstract
Affirmative action is a mechanism of conflict resolution in situation of ethnic tensions and socio-economic imbalances. In Malaysia, affirmative action was implemented through a New Economic Policy (NEP) from 1970 to address economic imbalances and wealth inequality among ethnics through the distribution of the equity with the goal of 30% Bumiputeras- owned and 40% non-bumiputera owned. After 40 years of implementation, the goal of equity distribution still yet to be achieved. However, does the implementation of affirmative action affects the distribution of wealth for each ethnic groups? Thus, this study aims to evaluate the influence of affirmative policies to the distribution of wealth between ethnic groups in Malaysia. This study will use equity data for ethnicity holdings for a period from 1969 to 2012 and will be tested using the Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. The findings show the implementation of affirmative action has significant influence in affecting the distribution of wealth between ethnic groups in the short term and the long term. The study also proves the wealth distribution between ethnic groups was distributed through growing economy rather than through the acquisition of the other ethnic ownership, especially Chinese ethnic was later and transferred to the Bumiputeras.
Suggested Citation
Sukemi, Muhammad Najit & Berma, Madeline & Baharuddin, Shamsul Amri & Shahadan, Faridah, 2018.
"Pengaruh Tindakan Afirmatif kepada Agihan Kekayaan antara Etnik di Malaysia,"
Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 52(1), pages 269-281.
Handle:
RePEc:ukm:jlekon:v:52:y:2018:i:1:p:269-281
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2018-5201-22
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