Summary
Reopening the economy after a lockdown of almost three months has accelerated the placement rate among unfortunate retrenched workers, thus, signalling that the employment market in Malaysia is still in the recovery phase. However, most of the vacancies on offer are allied to the low-skilled jobs category, and are not aligned to the supply side, which is made up mostly of high-skilled workers. It is this imbalance that motivated this study to examine the importance of educational level in boosting the speed of placements in the post-Movement Control Order (MCO) period.
