PETALING JAYA: While Malaysia’s unemployment rate has held steady at a decade low of 3% as of June, underemployment has been rising – inching close to the two million mark due to a persistent skills mismatch in the labour market.
Skill-related underemployment climbed from 1.183 million in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) to 1.956 million in 2Q25, edging up from 1.954 million in the previous quarter.
