Intersectoral Labor Mobility in Indonesia

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.016How to use a DOI?

Keywords

labor mobility, income, rural-urban migration

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of labour characteristics i.e. income, living in main islands, living in urban/rural areas and migration status on inter-sectoral labour mobility in Indonesia. We employ the sample of National Labour Force Survey (Sakernas) data which cover 8,869 workers who changed jobs last year. An analysis with Multinomial Logit finds evidence that income (in quantile) significantly influences the workers’ propensity for intersectoral mobility. Low income workers’ are more likely to shift in the same sector as the previous one and to work in the same location as where they live. The differences of region (island) have positive link with mobility from/toward agriculture sectors because Indonesia still has a large of agricultural land. Migrant workers are shifting to sectors with higher wages but require lower mobility costs. The government should implement policies that reduce the mobility cost by improving transportation facilities, encouraging the productivity of the nonfarm sector in rural areas, and focusing on the economic empowerment of rural-based communities.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Evie Dian Pratiwi
AU  - Khusnul Ashar
AU  - Wildan Syafitri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/09
TI  - Intersectoral Labor Mobility in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 23rd Asian Forum of Business Education(AFBE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 101
EP  - 106
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.016
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.016
ID  - Pratiwi2020
ER  -