Determinants Of Brain Drain In Johor Bahru

Chen, Wan Tin (2016) Determinants Of Brain Drain In Johor Bahru. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Brain drain is the movement of high-skilled individuals from developing country to developed country. The issue of brain drain is nothing new in Malaysia. The negative of net migration rate in Malaysia has deprives country’s human capital and negatively affect to the country’s economic performance and growth prospect. This research aims to investigate the determinants that urge high-educated Malaysians emigrate from Malaysia and causes brain drain in Johor Bahru. From the descriptive research design in this research, quantitative method was used to collect data through questionnaire survey. In this research, 160 high-educated respondents’ data were used as they fulfilled the basic requirement of “brain drain” for the analysis of the questionnaires survey. The respondents in Johor Bahru area were mainly focused and chosen randomly through simple random sampling technique. From the data analysis, the findings of the result showed that income factor, employment and education opportunities were positively impact to people’s intention to emigrate whereas better employment opportunities overseas was the most influencing factors towards brain drain. As a conclusion, this research was important and useful to the government of Malaysia to retain talented Malaysia professionals by doing necessary improvements and transformation, and raise the awareness of Malaysia citizens to the issue of brain drain.

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