About the Authors

Sor Tho Ng

ngst@um.edu.my

Affiliation Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nai Peng Tey

Affiliation Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

M. Niaz Asadullah

Affiliations Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Economics, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: STN NPT MNA. Formal analysis: STN NPT MNA. Funding acquisition: STN. Methodology: STN NPT MNA. Visualization: STN NPT MNA. Writing – original draft: STN NPT. Writing – review & editing: STN NPT MNA.