Tag: employment

THE EMPLOYABILITY AND WELFARE OF FEMALE LABOR MIGRANTS IN INDONESIAN CITIES

Devanto SHASTA PRATOMO

Senior Lecturer, Brawijaya University Indonesia

dede_gsu02@yahoo.com

Abstract

The aim of the study, first, is to examine which factors are important to explain the employment status of female labour migrants in the cities in Indonesia. The second aim is to examine the welfare of female labour migrants measured by their earnings to occupation and poverty status in the cities. This study takes advantage of a data source of Rural Urban Migration of Indonesia and China (RUMiCI) of 2011 conducted by Australian National University (ANU) focusing on four Indonesian cities, including Tangerang, Samarinda, Medan, and Makassar. The study concludes that female migrants survive in the cities in terms of their employability and welfare. Although there is no significant difference in terms of their occupation status compared to female non-migrants, female life-time migrants mostly receive higher earnings and less likely to be living under poverty. Education is an important predictor for employability and welfare of female migrants.

Keywords: Rural-Urban Migration, Female Workers, Employment, Poverty

JEL classification: J61, I32, J16
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LABOR ABSORPTION UNDER MINIMUM WAGE POLICY IN INDONESIA

Nur FERIYANTO

Department of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia
Condong Catur, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 55283, Phone number: +62811282632
nurferiyanto@yahoo.com

Jaka SRIYANA

Department of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia.
Condong Catur, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 55283, Phone number: +628328034715
jakasriyana@yahoo.com
(Corresponding author)

Abstract

This study analyzes the impact minimum wage policy and some economic factors on labor absorption in Indonesia. For this purpose, this research used provincial panel data for the period of 2006 to 2013. The study reveals that minimum wage policy across provinces has created unemployment trap in this period. It can be inferred that minimum wage policy failed to support the local economy to better and more stable society welfare. This research also found an unexpected result regarding to the role of economic growth to labor absorption. Economic growth across provinces has not contributed yet to the increasing employment rate in the local economy. Moreover, this finding reveals that provincial labor absorption was also affected by geographical factors. The provinces which are located at the west Indonesia tend to have high empolyment rate. This phenomenon indicates the existence of unbalanced development in the country.

Keywords: wage, employment, policy, investment, economic growth

JEL classification: C21, J23, J30, J31, J38

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