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employees in A‐ Agriculture, forestry and fishing is almost equal in 2010, 2014
and 2017. Figure 3 also indicates that their earning is almost identical.
Expanding the comparison years into single years from 2010 to 2017 shows
that gap in proportion of citizen and non‐citizen employees in this industry
did widening in between 2011 and 2013 where there ratio was 0.52:0.48 in
2011; 0.51:0.49 in 2012 and 0.62:0.38 in 2013. During this period, the earning
remains below MYR1,000 for both group of employees.

Figure 3: The distribution of earning with share of labor by citizenship by selected years

The detailed of the distribution in figure 3 among the top three industries
by earning listed earlier is shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5. The scatter plots in
Figure 4 represents the percentage‐earnings for the top three industries with
the highest earning among the non‐citizen employees. Fgure 5 represents the
top three industries among the Malaysian citizen employees. The eight dots in
each plots correspond to specific years.

Figure 4: The distribution of earning with share of labor by citizenship by selected years.

The proportion of non‐citizen employees in industry J ‐ Information and
communication remains around 1‐2 percent but increased gradually before
remained between 5 ‐6 percent approaching 2017. With the increase in
proportion of employees, the shows an increasing pattern too. In L ‐ Real

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