Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.

The paper studies composition and inequality of wealth among the household per capita in Malaysia, using the 2007 Malaysias household income survey (HIS) focusing on the disparity among the ethnic groups. Real estate assets make up about 96% of wealth, while financial assets make up the rest. Consis...

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Main Author:	Muhammed Abdul Khalid
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Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4773/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4773/

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spelling	ukm-47732012-05-24T02:19:48Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4773/ Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups. Muhammed Abdul Khalid, The paper studies composition and inequality of wealth among the household per capita in Malaysia, using the 2007 Malaysias household income survey (HIS) focusing on the disparity among the ethnic groups. Real estate assets make up about 96% of wealth, while financial assets make up the rest. Consistent with findings with other countries, the distribution of wealth are more skewed than of income. The distribution of wealth show that the top 10% of Malaysian household per capita control 35% of the country wealth, while the bottom 405 own 8% the decomposition of wealth shows that the gini coefficient for saving is 0.98, while the fugure for investment asset and real estet assets are 0.90 nd 0.52 respectivetly. Intra-ethnic,it is the Indian that has the leastof ownership in wealth at 23.7% and within the bumiputra group, the figure are 14.7% and the Chinese 10.5%. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011 Article PeerReviewed Muhammed Abdul Khalid, (2011) Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 45 . pp. 71-80. ISSN 0127-1962 http://www.ukm.my/penerbit/jem.htm
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description	The paper studies composition and inequality of wealth among the household per capita in Malaysia, using the 2007 Malaysias household income survey (HIS) focusing on the disparity among the ethnic groups. Real estate assets make up about 96% of wealth, while financial assets make up the rest. Consistent with findings with other countries, the distribution of wealth are more skewed than of income. The distribution of wealth show that the top 10% of Malaysian household per capita control 35% of the country wealth, while the bottom 405 own 8% the decomposition of wealth shows that the gini coefficient for saving is 0.98, while the fugure for investment asset and real estet assets are 0.90 nd 0.52 respectivetly. Intra-ethnic,it is the Indian that has the leastof ownership in wealth at 23.7% and within the bumiputra group, the figure are 14.7% and the Chinese 10.5%.
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author	Muhammed Abdul Khalid,
spellingShingle	Muhammed Abdul Khalid, Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
author_facet	Muhammed Abdul Khalid,
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title	Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
title_short	Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
title_full	Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
title_fullStr	Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
title_full_unstemmed	Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
title_sort	household wealth in malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2011
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4773/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4773/
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Household wealth in Malaysia: composition and inequality among ethnic groups.

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