Manning The State Government
By Chan Huan Chiang
October 2011 UTTER ECONOMICS
PEM unravels the Penang state government’s wage bill and finds that the implementation of a minimum wage may not have much of an impact on cost or income distribution. The question to ask is how productivity is best rewarded.States in MalaysiaThe Malaysian flag, now affectionately called the Jalur Gemilang, raised at the Stadium Merdeka in 1957 when Malaya became a new nation, bears a close resemblance to the American Stars and Stripes. The Malaysian flag’s red and white stripes represent...
Chan Huan Chiang
is a senior research fellow at the Penang Institute.
