The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea

Trade union is an organization of workers who have combined together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. Trade unions are important for several reasons. Unions not only negotiate wages for their members, it also affects fringe benefits, work allocation, job security and employ...

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Main Author: Roea, Martina Angie
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Published: 2010
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spelling my-uitm-ir.1005542024-09-10T16:07:42Z The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea 2010 Roea, Martina Angie Tariff. Free trade. Protectionism Trade union is an organization of workers who have combined together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. Trade unions are important for several reasons. Unions not only negotiate wages for their members, it also affects fringe benefits, work allocation, job security and employee participation practices. A new model of trade union membership growth in Malaysia for the period 1980-2009 is proposed. In the model, it incorporates the economic factors as the explanatory variables. This paper examines whether consumer price index (CPI), growth of gross domestic products (GDP), and unemployment rate in Malaysia affect the trade unions membership growth in Malaysia. The annual Malaysian time-series data for the period 1980-2009 was used in this study. The ordinary least squares method was employed by performing simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis. The final result shows that all of the explanatory variables determined the trade union membership growth in Malaysia. 2010 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100554/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100554/1/100554.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah Faculty of Business and Management
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Tariff
Free trade
Protectionism
spellingShingle Tariff
Free trade
Protectionism
Roea, Martina Angie
The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
description Trade union is an organization of workers who have combined together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. Trade unions are important for several reasons. Unions not only negotiate wages for their members, it also affects fringe benefits, work allocation, job security and employee participation practices. A new model of trade union membership growth in Malaysia for the period 1980-2009 is proposed. In the model, it incorporates the economic factors as the explanatory variables. This paper examines whether consumer price index (CPI), growth of gross domestic products (GDP), and unemployment rate in Malaysia affect the trade unions membership growth in Malaysia. The annual Malaysian time-series data for the period 1980-2009 was used in this study. The ordinary least squares method was employed by performing simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis. The final result shows that all of the explanatory variables determined the trade union membership growth in Malaysia.
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author Roea, Martina Angie
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title The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
title_short The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
title_full The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
title_fullStr The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
title_full_unstemmed The determinants of trade union membership growth in Malaysia / Martina Angie Roea
title_sort determinants of trade union membership growth in malaysia / martina angie roea
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah
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publishDate 2010
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100554/1/100554.pdf
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