Loss of employment, lockdown measures and government responses in malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic: a note

• Main Authors: Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Saari, Mohd Yusof, Safuan, Sugiharso, Haji Din, Badariah, Bali Mahomed, Anuar Shah
• Format: Article
• Published: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2021
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94053/; https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/4320
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

In this paper, we use daily administrative data from January 25, 2020 to December 31, 2020 to examine the relationship between job losses and the Malaysian lockdown measures. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is used to estimate both the long-run and short-run models. The results o...