Abstract

It is nothing new about the unemployment issue in Malaysia as it has been debated for many years, given how impactful the effects of unemployment and underemployment are in the long run. As the world had been impacted by the impactful trajectory of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the pandemic had further exacerbated unemployment among graduates, hence increasing the unemployment rate.

Therefore, this research proposal examines the relationship between the dominant factors of unemployment and how these factors influence the soaring rate of unemployment among Malaysian graduates. Per this objective, this research investigates four exogenous variables: low wages, job mismatch, quality of Higher Education Systems in Malaysia, and the employability skills of Malaysian graduates.

The targeted population used in this study is the Malaysian graduates, be they graduated from a public or private local Higher Education Institutions, aged 21 to 29, residing in any state in Malaysia. The temporal timeframe should include graduates who had graduated after 1 or 2 years max from their studies and are still unable to secure unemployment in Malaysia, either public or private companies. Furthermore, this study has used quantitative analysis for data collection.

An online administered questionnaire survey via Google Form was used and responded to by 100 targeted respondents for this study. This study has used multiple regression analysis and Pearson’s
coefficient correlation analysis to assess the relationship between the coefficients studied in this research with unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. Results have shown that factors of low wages, job mismatch, quality of Higher Education Systems in Malaysia and employability skills of graduates significantly correlated to graduates’ unemployment in Malaysia.

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