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that this number will rise to 5.3 million. Thus, the target is for

skilled workers to make up 35 percent of the total employed
workforce (Eleventh Malaysia Plan, 2015). Achieving this desire
will be through specialized and target-based incentives “based

on productivity and quality assessment. Government will also
favor knowledge-intensive investments (Eleventh Malaysia Plan,

2015).

The country has some 2,469,173 international migrants

as of 2013. There are five categories of foreigners in Malaysia:
expatriates, foreign skilled workers, unskilled and semi-skilled
workers, foreign students, and foreigners under the Malaysia

My Second Home program (Kanapathy, 2008).

As for labor migration, the Eleventh Malaysia Plan 2016-
2020 provides that government will streamline the recruitment

of foreign workers under a single authority or agency under the
Ministry of Human Resources. This is part of a comprehensive

immigration and employment policy formulation that
Malaysia will soon formulate under this Eleventh Malaysia Plan
(2015). The country had also revised its qualification framework;

technical and vocational education has eight levels that now
jive with the university-schooled workers.

Malaysia recently released a critical occupations list
(COL). Six key economic sectors were identified to be in need of

skilled workers: electrical and electronics, oil and gas, information

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