As Andrew Hacker points out in the New York Review of Books, teenagers are a significant source of low-paid labour in supermarkets, shopping malls and fast-food franchises.

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While up to 2m immigrants meet Malaysia's need for low-paid labour, it is harder to import the skills it needs to fulfil its ambitions to become a hub of the new information technologies.

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But even low paid work would reconnect the unemployed to the labour market (many European countries have some version of this, my native UK for example insists that the long term unemployed should go work for nothing except their welfare benefits).

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